April 2014 - March 2016
Senior Research Fellow at the Global South Studies Center Cologne, University of Cologne
May 2010 - February 2014
Senior Researcher at the Research Network for Latin America; Research project: "Citizenship and Politics of Belonging in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic"
Lecturer at the Department of Iberian and Latin-American History, University of Cologne
November 2011
Lectureship at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
2009
PhD in "Europäische Ethnologie" at Humboldt University in Berlin
2006 - 2010
Lecturer, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin
1999 - 2000
Scholarship at the Department of Social Anthropology of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, GB
1996 - 2004
Magister in "European Ethnology" (Cultural Studies) and Sociology in Berlin and LondonCo-Director of the University of Cologne Forum ‘Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe’