Short Biography

since September 2017: 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

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

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 (Theme: Borders and Technology), Athens, September 2017.

2017. Passkontrolle als Kategorisierungsarbeit: Zur Umsetzung von Migrationsgesetzen in Norduganda. Presentation at the German Anthropological Association Conference (Theme: Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und politische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt), Berlin, October 2017.