2022
Field research in the Philippines in the context of the research project “De-Kinning and Re-kinning?
Estrangement, Divorce, Adoption and the Transformation of Kin Networks” (funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation)
2017/18
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality:
A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation)
2017
Guest professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna
2016 – 2021
Joint headship – with Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni and Prof. Dr. Stephanie Klein – of the University Research Priority group "Family Change in
the Context of Migration and Globalisation" at the University of Lucerne
2016
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality:
A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation)
2014
Co-editor of "Sociologus. Journal for Social Anthropology"
2013
Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on mining and social transformations
2011 – 2014
Leibniz-Chair at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT, Bremen)
2011 – 2012
Member of the ZiF research group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition. Re-Integrating Anthropology into the Cognitive
Sciences", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University
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)
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 Philippine 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
2017
Editorial board of "Paideuma. Zeitschrift für Kulturkunde"
2014
Scientific committee of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)
Editorial board of "Asia Pacific Anthropology"
2013
Co-editor of "Sociologus", member of the editorial board since 2006
www.duncker-humblot.de
2011 – 2012
ZiF Research Group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld.
2010
Editorial board of “Methoden-Lexikon für die Sozialwissenschaft”. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden
2009 – 2014
Board of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)
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
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)
AAA (American Anthropological Association)
ASAO (Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania)
DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde)
Esfo (European Society of Oceanists)
SEG (Schweizer Ethnologische Gesellschaft)