I am a socio-cultural anthropologist, and currently scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology at the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism at Saarland University. Prior to that, I was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt funded Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I completed my BA and PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
For the past decade, my research has grappled with artistic and cultural production in Europe, focusing specifically on public and civic institutions, such as theatres and museums. I consider such institutions as prisms through which societies reckon with difficult pasts and seek to prefigure hopeful futures. Through my research, teaching, and writing, I seek to create modes of co-production, which reflect on the ways in which academic (anthropological) knowledge production is embroiled in the same quest for understanding and producing contested ideas of world.
I am currently teaching and completing my habilitation (second book manuscript) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, tentatively titled Beyond the Universal Machine. Curating Difficult Heritage Spectres. My first monograph State of the Arts. An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration has just been published with Cambridge University Press.
For the past decade, my research has grappled with artistic and cultural production in Europe, focusing specifically on public and civic institutions, such as theatres and museums. I consider such institutions as prisms through which societies reckon with difficult pasts and seek to prefigure hopeful futures. Through my research, teaching, and writing, I seek to create modes of co-production, which reflect on the ways in which academic (anthropological) knowledge production is embroiled in the same quest for understanding and producing contested ideas of world.
I am currently teaching and completing my habilitation (second book manuscript) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, tentatively titled Beyond the Universal Machine. Curating Difficult Heritage Spectres. My first monograph State of the Arts. An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration has just been published with Cambridge University Press.