Completed Research Projects


  • The social placing of religion and spirituality in Vietnam in the context of Asian modernity. Part of the competence network "Dyamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" (DORISEA); Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology Göttingen. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01UC1102A). Project description
  • Cultural Anthropology of Morality: “Good and Evil”, History and Christianity in the moral praxis among the Qaqet-Baining, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Funded by Gerda Henkel Stiftung (AZ 47/F/03). Completed in 2009. Project description
  • Junior Researcher in the research project "Spatial organization, behavior and cognition in intercultural comparison" funded by the German Research Council (DFG). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Göttingen. Completed in 2001.