Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Personal Profile

  • Since September 2012 - Director of the survey "Expectations of employers concerning the capacities of graduates of the Faculty of Social Sciences" at the university of Göttingen.
  • Since July 2010 - PhD student at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen; supervisor Prof. Nikolaus Schareika. Working title: Hunting and Protecting in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve (North Benin): Negotiating New Institutions for the Integration of Local Hunters in the Park-Surveillance.
  • July 2010 to September 2012 - Research assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen.
  • April 2008 to June 2010 - Research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies in Mainz for the research programme Biota (West Africa) with Prof. Nikolaus Schareika.
  • March 2008 - Master degree (Magister Artium) of Social Anthropology, Political Science and Philosophy.
  • November 2007 - Finishing of Master´s thesis on persuasive elements in local political discourse in a rural community in Senegal.
  • September 2005 to March 2006 - Studies at the University Paris X and at the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations INALCO.
  • August 2005 bis March 2008 - Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation
  • April 2002 - Beginning of studies (Magister) in Social Anthropolgy (major), Political sciences and Philosophy (minor).