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2009
Field research in the Philippines, focusing on the use of Social Network Sites and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on interethnic relations and transcultural kinship (funded by the Swiss National Sience Foundation)
2008
Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
2006
Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg.
2003/04
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea, focusing on a) interethnic relations and b) the senses in their cultural context (funded by the German Research Foundation).
2002 – 2005
Heisenbergstipendium, Fellowship of the German Research Foundation.
2002
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Zentral-Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation).(DFG-gefördert)
2002
Fellowship of the Maecenia Foundation (Frankfurt), for a Study of Women researchers in German Anthropology
2001/02
Visiting lecturer, Cultural Studies, University of Lüneburg
2001
Habilitation at University of Hamburg; Thesis Concepts of the body in interethnic relations and theories of race
1999/2000
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation).
1999
Field research in Loay, Bohol (The Philippines); filming & photography of Easter celebrations.
1998 – 2000
Habilitation stipend from the German Research Foundation for the project: “Physical differences in interethnic relations and their meaning for theories of race.”
1998
Prize 1997 of the Hamburg Science Foundation (Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung)
1996/97
Field research in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) on: “The Ati: Interethnic relations and survival strategies among an ethnic minority;” and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea (funded by the German Research Foundation).
1996 – 1998
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Research Foundation.
1996
Field research in The Philippines (Grant from the Hamburg Science Foundation)
1995
Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Hamburg; Thesis: German-Philippines marriages; matrimony and the migration of women.
1993/94
Field research in The Philippines on interethnic marriage and migration (Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)
1993 – 1995
Doctoral Stipend from University of Hamburg.
1992 – 1996
Research on marriage migration in the Philipine community in Hamburg.
1992
Masters Thesis: Anthropological work on interethnic marriage in pre-industrial societies.
1986 – 1992
Studies in Anthropology, Spanish & Folklore, University of Hamburg
1966
Born in Frankfurt- am- Main, Germany.
Membership of Learned Societies & Research Teams
since 2008
Research group, “Climate and culture” of The Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
www.diejungeakademie.de
since 2006
Editorial Board of „Sociologus“
www.duncker-humblot.de
2004 – 2008
Research group, “Borders and crossings” of The Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
www.diejungeakademie.de
2003 – 2008
Member of The Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Junge Akademie der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
www.diejungeakademie.de
AAA (American Anthropological Association)
ASAO (Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania)
DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde)
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
Esfo (European Society of Oceanists)
SEG (Schweizer Ethnologische Gesellschaft)
