2025 – 2028
Principal investigator in the scientific network “Kinship Generations: Ethnographic Perspectives from across Africa, Asia and the Middle East”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Centre for Global Cooperation Reserach, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2026 – 2028
Guest researcher, Centre for Global Cooperation Reserach, Universität Duisburg-Essen
2023 – 2025
Principal investigator in the project “Cultivating Ethics across Generations” (CEAG), funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Bielefeld University, Germany
2017 – 2025
Research associate and lecturer at the Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2019 – 2024
Coordinator in the research network Shaping Asia
2020 – 2023
Research associate in the project “Knowledge Production and Circulation” of the Shaping Asia Research Network, led by Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
2022
Visiting professorship at Kathmandu University and Tribhuvan University, Nepal
2018 – 2019
Post-doctoral fellow at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS-MP), an Indo-German research cooperation funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, New Delhi, India
2017
Visiting lecturer at Kathmandu University, Nepal
2013 – 2017
Research collaborator and lecturer at the Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2011 – 2014
Research collaborator in the research project “Micro dynamics of political communication in the World Society. The Social Life of the Democracy Concept in Bangladesh and Senegal”, funded by DFG, Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2010 – 2011
Student assistant in the research project “Ethnicization and De-Ethnicization of Politics. Media, Actors and Semantics of Ethnicity in Transnational Communicative Space”, funded by DFG, Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University