Research projects
- Spirits in modern Southeast Asia
- Dynamics of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
- Ancestor Worship and Pilgrimage in Late Socialist Vietnam
- Negotiation of national and ethnic identity in the present transformation processes of late socialist Laos
- Ph.D. project:: Categorization and Positioning of the "foreign" by the Khmu in Namtha region, Northwest Laos.
- Ph.D. project: Transnational Migration and Gender: Gender identities of female educational migrants from Malaysia in Singapore
- Transnational subjects Between Germany and the Philippines. Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage Migration
- Field research in the Philippines among the Alangan-Mangyan in the mountains of Mindoro island (funded by german academic exchange service)