Curriculum Vitae
Grants, Honours, Fellowships
2004 - 09
Minerva Professorship, Programme “Promotion of Exceptional Female Scientists and Researchers at the Max Planck Society”
2000 - 03
Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant, Ministry of Education, Science and Research, State of North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany
2001
Archival Grant, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
1994 - 96
Postdoctoral grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Center (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster
1990 - 93
PhD grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Center (Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in Africa” (linked to the SFB “Identity in Africa”), University of Bayreuth
1983
Foreign exchange scholarship, awarded by the Academic Foreign Office, University of Hamburg to study at the
University of California, Irvine (UCI) (1983)
Academic Positions and Functions
ongoing
Extraordinary Professor, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
ongoing
Head of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)”, MPI for Social Anthropology
2022
Visiting Professor, Département de Sciences sociales, École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris
2016
Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília
2008 - 09
Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society, Technology and Development,
McGill University, Montreal
2007
Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília
2006
Visiting Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington
2006
Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon
2003 - 04
Senior Researcher, MPI for Social Anthropology
2000 - 02
Visiting Fellow, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
1997 - 99
Scientific Coordinator, Research School “Cultural Diversity and the Construction of the Polity in Southeast Asia: Continuity, Discontinuity, Transformation”, University of Münster
1994 - 96
Researcher (Postdoc), Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster (see “Grants”)
1991 - 92
Visiting Fellow, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, Freetown
1990 - 93
PhD candidate, Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in Africa” (linked to the SFB “Identity in Africa”), University of Bayreuth