Short Biography

since April 2020: Assistant Professorship at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, Co-supervising the M.A. program "Culture and Environment in Africa"

2018-2019: 18-months stay in Kenya for fieldwork and teaching at Kenyatta University, Nairobi

2017-2020: Attached Researcher to the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development, Kenyatta University (Kenya)

since April 2017: PhD Research Fellow of the EUmanities Programm, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School of the Humanities, Cologne

2014-2017: Student & Research Assistant at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

2014: Research and Study at the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies, Gulu University (Uganda)

July 2016: Award of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cologne for the M.A. Thesis

2013-2016: M.A. Anthropology at the University of Cologne

2009-2012: B.A. Sociology, Anthropology & African Studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz

Thematic Interests and Regional Focus

Border Studies, Migration, Bureaucracy, Globalization, Political Anthropology.

East Africa.

Research Projects

Doing Border, Making Nation. Infrastructural Changes and Enforcement Practices at Kenyan Border Posts (Dissertation Project supervised by Prof. Michael Bollig)

More information in the a.r.t.e.s. story: “Ethnography in the Age of Security. Reflections on Research Methodology at Kenyan Border Posts” (October 2018)

Publications

2020. Cultural Profiling During Passport Control: Ugandan Migration Officers’ Informal Selection Practices. Sociologus: Journal of Social Anthropology vol 70, 1.

2017. Street-Level Bureaucrats and Passport Networking: Practices of Immigration Law Enforcement in Northern Uganda. Cologne African Studies Centre: Culture and Environment in Africa Series, Issue 10.

Presentations

2019. Enforcing the "Smooth Flow": Challenges of New Mobility Infrastructures at Kenyan Borders. Presentation at the European Conference on African Studies in Edinburgh.

2017. “When my Antennas come out”: Practices of Immigration Law Enforcement in Northern Uganda - Perspectives from the Global South. Presentation at the Tensions of Europe Conference in Athens.

2017. Passkontrolle als Kategorisierungsarbeit: Zur Umsetzung von Migrationsgesetzen in Norduganda. Presentation at the German Anthropological Association Conference in Berlin.