2021
Completion of the Habilitation (“Antrittsvorlesung” April 2021)
since 2020
Associated Researcher, Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America
since 2015
Principal Investigator at the Global South Studies Center
since 2014
Senior Researcher at the Department of Iberian and Latin American History, University of Cologne
2013 - 2015
Member of the University of Cologne Forum Ethnicity as a Political Resource – Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe
2010 - 2013
Managing Director (Senior Researcher) of the BMBF-funded Research Network for Latin America - Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging - at the University of Cologne
2011
PhD in Anthropology of the Americas, University of Bonn. Thesis title: "Contactos exteriores del Estado tarasco: Influencias desde dentro y fuera de Mesoamérica"
2007 - 2010
PhD scholarship from the Gerda Henkel foundation
2001-2007
Latin American Studies at the Universities of Cologne, Bonn, Lisbon and Mexico-City.
Thesis title: "Die Breve Relación des Pedro Ponce de León. Ein unbekannter Autor und sein Bericht über religiöse Praktiken in Zentralmexiko"