2020
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2019
Habilitation (Venia: Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Cologne

2018 - 2020
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen

2017
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz

2014-15
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2010-18
Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2004
PhD, University of Bonn

Thematic

• Traditionalism, populism, nationalism
• Violence, conflict, social order
• Intermediary rule and democracy
• Anthropology of the state
• Anthropology of sports

Regional

• South Africa
• Namibia