Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection

Curriculum Vitae


  • Since 2019: Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Göttingen in the BMBF research project "From 'bare necessities' to 'promising things': On the materiality of (forced) migration"
  • 2016-2019: Visiting professorship of Religious Studies at the University of Leipzig
  • 2011-2015: Researcher in Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia network (DORISEA), funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (strengthening and developing area studies). Project: Spirits and Modernity
  • March-May 2012: Visiting research affiliate at ARI (Asia Research Institute) in Singapore
  • October-December 2011: Fellow at NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) in Copenhagen
  • Since November 2011: Extracurricular professorship für Religious Studies at the University of Bremen, Institute for Religious Studies and Religious Pedagogy
  • 2006-2010: Visiting professorships (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies) at the Universities of Munich (LMU), Freiburg, Bremen, Heidelberg
  • 2000-2005: University lecturer for Religious Studies and director of Museum of Religions, University of Marburg
  • 2005/06: Research fellow at International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna
  • 2003: Habilitation, Religious Studies (University of Bremen); Habilitation thesis: Passion / Pasyon: Rituale des Schmerzes im europäischen und philippinischen Christentum [Passion / Pasyon: Rituals of pain in European and Filipino christianity]. Munich 2010.
  • 1996, 1997, 1998: Fieldwork in the Philippines; Research project: Rituals of passion in Bulacan Province (Flagellation, Self-Crucifixion)
  • 1992: Doctoral degree, Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Freiburg); PhD thesis (joint thesis with Andrea Lauser): Leben in Malula. Ein Beitrag zur Ethnographie der Alangan-Mangyan auf Mindoro (Philippinen) [Life in Malula. A contribution to the ethnography of the Alangan-Mangyan of Mindoro (Philippines)]. Pfaffenweiler 1993.
  • 1991-1993: 1991-1993: Researcher at the Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg; Exhibition Focus Behaim Globus
  • 1989-1991: Researcher at the Institut für soziale und kulturelle Arbeit (ISKA) in Nuremberg; conference Zur Relevanz des Fremden für unsere Kultur
  • 1986-1988: Fieldwork in the Philippines; Research topic: Shamanism and indigenous cosmology of the Alangan-Mangyan of Mindoro
  • Study of Pre- and Early History, Religious and Intellectual History and Art History in Erlangen; of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religious History and European Ethnology in Freiburg i. Br.