C.V.

School education (selection)

Kollegschule Kikweg (now Lore-Lorentz-Schule): A-Levels/ Abitur, Düsseldorf
Ghana International School (G.I.S.), Secondary School, Accra
Ramseyer Memorial School (R.M.S.) (now German International School Accra/GISA), Accra

Tertiary education and academic degrees

2006
Habilitation (Dr. habil.) in Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2004
Dr. phil. (Ph.D.) in Social Anthropology (major), Developmental Sociology (1st minor), English Literature (2nd minor), University of Bayreuth
1984–88
Student of Social Anthropology, Political Sciences, English Philology, University of Cologne, Master of Arts (M.A.)
1983
Student of Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
1982–83
Student of Social Anthropology, Political Sciences, University of Hamburg
1980–81
Student at Nora-Hengstenberg-Schauspielschule (Drama School), Düsseldorf

Academic positions and functions

since 2006
Extraordinary Professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
since 2004
Head of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. (hereinafter MPI for Social Anthropology)
since 2004
Supervisor of PhD students, member of Thesis Advisory Committees (TAC), advisor and mentor of Postdocs
2003–04
Senior Researcher, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S.
1997–99
Scientific Coordinator, Research School “Cultural Diversity and the Construction of the Polity in Southeast Asia: Continuity, Discontinuity, Transformation”, University of Münster
1996–1999
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Münster
1994–96
Postdoc, Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster (see “Grants”)
1990–93
PhD candidate, Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in Africa” (linked to the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)/Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) “Identity in Africa”), University of Bayreuth (see “Grants”)

(Invited) visiting professorships

2022
Visiting Professor, École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, 2022 (April/May)
2016
Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (January/February)
2008–09
Recurrent Visiting Research Professor, Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society, Technology and Development, McGill University, Montreal
2007
Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (August/September)
2006
Visiting Professor at Indiana University Bloomington (December)
2006
Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon (November)
2000–02
Visiting Fellow, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
1991–92
Visiting Fellow, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, Freetown

Grants, honours, fellowships

2010
Upon nomination of the Max Planck Society: Inclusion in AcademiaNet (now Bosch Alumni Network): international database containing profiles of leading female scientists, initiated and inaugurated by then German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
2004–09
Minerva Professorship, Programme “Promotion of Exceptional Female Scientists and Researchers at the Max Planck Society”
2001
Archival research grant, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (November/December)
2000–03
Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant, Ministry of Education, Science and Research, State of North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany
1994–96
Postdoctoral grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Centre (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster
1990–93
PhD grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Centre (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 for study at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Publications

Monographs and edited books

Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity (co-edited with W. Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2018.https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004363397/html
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective (co-edited with C. Kohl). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2016 (hardcover), 2018 (open access, funded by Knowledge Unlatched Round 2), 2023 (paperback).https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KnoerrUpper
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014 (hardcover), 2018 (paperback), 2026 (open access).https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/knoerrcreole
Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity (co-edited with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (co-edited with W. Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft: Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag, 2007.
Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency (editor). Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-89942-384-6/childhood-and-migration/
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives (co-edited with B. Meier). Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung als Kategorien kultureller Differenzierung: Varianten neoafrikanischer Identität und Interethnik in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 10, SFB 214: Identität in Afrika, University of Bayreuth, Münster and Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 1995.
Zwischen goldenem Ghetto und Integration: Ethnologische Autobiographie und Untersuchung über das Aufwachsen deutscher und Schweizer Kinder in der 3. Welt am Beispiel Ghanas und ihre anschließende Eingliederung in Europa. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990.

Articles and book chapters

Creole Identity. In: Chapelle, C. A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (World Englishes). In: C.A. Chapelle and E. A. Anchimbe (eds.).https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20135
Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: the example of Sierra Leone. In: Lüpke, F. (ed.) The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, pp. 595-604. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Global and local models of governance in interaction: Configurations of power in Upper Guinea Coast societies (with A. Schroven). Journal of Contemporary African Studies 37, 1: 57-71, 2019.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02589001.2019.1633012?needAccess=true
Transnationalism. In: Callan, H. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, pp. 6179-6189. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/84007566/Transnationalism
Creolization and pidginization as concepts of language, culture and identity. In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity, pp. 15-35. Leiden: Brill, 2018.https://brill.com/display/book/9789004363397/B9789004363397_003.xml
Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity. Content, context, structure (with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity, pp. 3-14. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
A war and after: Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world. In: Hannerz, U. and A. Gingrich (eds.) Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities, pp. 250-264. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Deconstructing tropes of politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies (with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). In: Højbjerg, C. K., Knörr, J. and W. P. Murphy (eds.) Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity, pp. 1-26. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Female Genital Cutting in context: The example of Sierra Leone. The Expert Witness 16: 36-42, 2016.
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/27076546/Female_Genital_Cutting_in_context_the_example_of_Sierra_Leone
The Upper Guinea Coast in global perspective (with C. Kohl). In: Knörr, J. and C. Kohl (eds.) The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective, pp. 1-18. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2016.https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KnoerrUpper
Sprachliche Diversität und die Konstruktion gemeinsamer Identität in postkolonialen Kontexten / Linguistic diversity and the construction of common identity in postcolonial contexts. In: Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2014 / Max Planck Society Yearbook 2014.https://www.mpg.de/7920795/JB_2014.pdf
The interaction of global and local models of governance in articulations of traditional authority and local leadership in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies (with C. K. Højbjerg and A. Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers 149, 2013.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0149
Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11-12: 16-23, 2012.https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/75764/einheit-in-vielfalt-zum-verhaeltnis-ethnischer-und-nationaler-identitaet-in-indonesien/
Childhood and migration in the context of globalization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp. 177-179. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Creolization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp. 335-342. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
National, ethnic and creole identities in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies (Knörr et al.). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Paper 135, 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0135
Some comparative notes on local leadership and traditional authority in the Upper Guinea Coast region (with C. K. Højbjerg and A. Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2010-2011-vol1-de
Das Coming-out der Diaspora als Heimat? Kreolische Identität in Sierra Leones Nachkriegsgesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136: 331-356, 2011.
Mardijker: Creoles in Batavia. In: Andrea, A. J. (ed.) World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, 1450-1770, pp. 184-185. ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Nationaler Zusammenhalt in schwachen Staaten / National Unity in Weak States. Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2011.https://www.eth.mpg.de/41253/research_report_1227866?c=2923387&force_lang=de
Contemporary creoleness, or: The world in pidginization? Current Anthropology 51, 6: 731-759, 2010.
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 1-23. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity. In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 205-228. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany. In: Karentsos, A., A. E. Kittner and J. Reuter (eds.) Topologies of Travel: Tourism, Imagination, Migration, pp. 229-236, 2010.
Creolization and nation-building in Indonesia. In: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, pp. 353-363. London: Routledge, 2009.
‘Free the Dragon’ versus ‘Becoming Betawi’: Chinese identity in contemporary Jakarta. Asian Ethnicity 10, 1: 71-90, 2009.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232891672
Postkoloniale Kreolität versus koloniale Kreolisierung. Paideuma 55: 93-115, 2009.https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40342035.pdf
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children. In: Report of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe, European Science Foundation, February 2009, pp. 23-28.
Indigenisierung vs. Re-Ethnisierung: Chinesische Identität in Jakarta. Anthropos 1: 159-177, 2008.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40901341
Towards conceptualizing creolization and creoleness. MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers 100, 2008.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0100
Language and identity (with G. Schlee). MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2008-2009, Vol. I, pp. 29-33.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building: Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone. Série Antropologia, Departamento Antropologia Universidade Brasília 416, Brasília, 2007.http://www.dan2.unb.br/images/doc/Serie416empdf.pdf
Introduction. In: Knörr, J. (ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency, pp. 9-21. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-89942-384-6/childhood-and-migration/
When German children come ‘home’: Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany – and some remarks about the ‘TCK’-issue. In: Knörr, J. (ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency, pp. 51-66. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-89942-384-6/childhood-and-migration/
Freetown. In: Ember, M. and C. R. Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures around the World (Vol. II), pp. 212-219. Danbury: Grolier, 2002.
Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionalität und Modernität: Die Orang Betawi und Betawi-ness in Jakarta. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128, 2: 203-221, 2002.
Women and migration: Anthropological perspectives (with B. Meier). In: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 9-17. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Female secret societies and their impact on ethnic and transethnic identities among migrant women in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 62-80. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Kulturelle Transformationsprozesse in Jakarta im Spannungsfeld von Ethnisierung und Transethnisierung. In: Krasberg, U. and B. Schmidt (eds.) Stadt in Stücke: Entstehungsprozesse neuer urbaner Traditionen, pp. 247-270. Marburg: Curupira, 2000.
Definitionen und Erklärungsansätze von Prostitution (with U. Holter and E. Heinser-Ueckert). In: Holter, U. (ed.) Bezahlt, geliebt, verstoßen: Prostitution und andere Sonderformen institutionalisierter Sexualität in verschiedenen Kulturen, pp. 9-16. Bonn: Holos, 1995.
Creolization and pidginization as categories of cultural differentiation: Varieties of cultural identity and interethnic relations in Freetown. In: Riesz, J. (ed.) Échange Franco-Allemands sur l’Afrique: Bayreuth African Studies, pp. 115-131, 1994.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung auf kultureller Ebene. In: Laubscher, S. and B. Turner (eds.) Regionale Völkerkunde, Band 2, pp. 15-25. Munich: edition anacon, 1994.
(Re-)Constructions of national identity in the Upper Guinea Coast. MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2006-2007, pp. 30-40. Halle/S.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/publications/institute-reports/institute_report_2006-2007
Integration und Konflikt im Verhältnis von Nation, Staat und Ethnie. MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Bericht 2007, pp. 82-83. Halle/S., 2007.

Reports: Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”

MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2020-2022, pp. 125-128. Halle/S., 2022.https://www.eth.mpg.de/6364698/mpi-eth-institute-report-2020-2022.pdf
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2017-2020, pp. 37-58. Halle/S., 2020.https://www.eth.mpg.de/5604353/mpi-eth-institute-report-2017-2019-schlee-remep.pdf#page=49
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2013-2016, pp. 31-41. Halle/S., 2017.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2014-2016-integration-and-conflict-de
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I, pp. 33-35. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2010-2011-vol1-de
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2008-2009, Vol. I, pp. 34-38. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de
MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Sonderausgabe, pp. 83-87. Halle/S., 2005.
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2004-2005, pp. 111-115. Halle/S., 2005.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/publications/institute-reports/institute_report_2004-2005

Reviews (selection)

Beoku-Betts, J. and M’Cormack-Hale, F. (eds.) War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone. London: Zed Books, 2022. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (in press).
Legêne, S., Purwanto, B. and Schulte, H. (eds.) Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Journal of Historical Geography 55: 126-127, 2016.
Cole, Gibril R. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Comparativ 2: 108-110, 2016.
Kelley, Carol E. Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. American Anthropologist 117, 4: 842-843, 2015.
Hoffman, Danny. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124, 2014.
Bolten, Catherine E. I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Anthropos 108, 2: 636-637, 2013.
Jackson, Michael. Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. Anthropos 107, 1: 268-269, 2012.

Presentations

Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa: Looking back, looking ahead.”Colloquium “Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa’ (2004-2024): Looking Back, Looking Ahead”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., July 2026.
Research on the Upper Guinea Coast at the MPI for Social Anthropology (2005-2024) or: ‘The Powerful Presence of the Past.’Conference “Political Interactions and Exchange in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Conference in Memory of Christian K. Højbjerg (1962-2014)”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2024.
Looking at decolonization as acts of creolization … and vice versa.Conference “Political Interactions and Exchange in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Conference in Memory of Christian K. Højbjerg (1962-2014)”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2024.
The benefits of the ‘creole lens’ or, towards grounding decolonization studies.Joint Workshop of the Research Groups “Gender, Migration and Social Mobility among West African Women in Europe” and “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., July 2023.
Dynamics of creolization as important dimensions of decolonization in colonial and postcolonial societies.Biennial Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Munich, July 2023.
Towards decolonizing concepts of decolonization.Workshop: “Out of Control? How Concepts and Practices Circulate across Boundaries”, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR) and Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), University of Duisburg-Essen, October 2022.
From West Africa to Indonesia (and back): A personal and intellectual encounter.École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, May 2022.
Interactions between decolonization and creolization: Towards an anthropological turn in decolonization studies.École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, April 2022.
Creole variants of language in contexts of decolonization: Krio versus Afrikaans (with M. Kriel).Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, Düsseldorf, December 2021.
Teaching to treat: medical education in empires (18-20c) (discussant).Workshop, University of Oxford, Centre for the History of Science and Technology, June 2021.
Anthropological research as (personal) life experience.MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., October 2020.
Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: language, culture, identity (in connection with book launch).Conference “Language and the Decolonization of the African Coast”, co-organized by the MPI for Social Anthropology (J. Knörr) and Nelson Mandela University (M. Kriel and R. Boswell), Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, October 2018.
Constructing the nation in postcolonial contexts of diversity: Concepts and contestations.Advanced Course, Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, November 2018.
What about those who stay? How out-migration affects West African societies.Conference “Those Who Stay: How Out-migration Affects West African Societies”, 6th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., April 2018.
Fremde Wunden oder: Was hat (weibliche) Genitalbeschneidung mit Kreolen, Kolonialismus, der Zusammensetzung von Parlamenten und der Angst der Männer vor Impotenz zu tun?Themenkonzerte / Theme Concerts 2018, Deutsche Oper in cooperation with the Max Planck Society, Munich, December 2018.
‘Beyond autochthony discourses…’: On the work of Otto Hahn medalist and awardee Anaïs Ménard, member of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast”.Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., October 2017.
Revisiting repatriates. About getting old(er) ‘back home’.Conference of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Dubrovnik, May 2016.
Krio ideologies of descent in current nation-state context.Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), San Diego, November 2015.
Towards liberating African Studies from the ‘triangular bias’: African-Asian interaction and exchange as a new research frontier.Conference “Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge”, ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars), Accra, September 2015.
Creoles of Asia in processes of inclusion and exclusion: The example of the Betawi and Peranakan in Jakarta, Indonesia.Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH), Osaka, April 2015.
Mixed heritage and connectivity as constituents of Jakartan identity: Betawi, Peranakan, Indo.Conference “Connectivity in Motion: New Studies on the Indian Ocean World”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., October 2014.
Creolization versus Pidginization: Why conceptual differentiation matters when trying to understand postcolonial diversity in terms of language and identity.5th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”: “Creole Languages and Postcolonial Diversity in Comparative Perspective”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., October 2014.
Creoles of Asia in processes of inclusion and exclusion: the example of the Betawi and Peranakan in Jakarta, Indonesia.Conference “Eurasians”, University of Leiden, March 2014.
About serving as expert witness in asylum cases.Institute’s Colloquium, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., February 2014.
Krio ideologies of descent in current public discourse and performance.Panel “Travelling Models of Policy Making in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies”, organized by the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, November 2013.
The research program of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa” at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle/S., Germany).Northwestern University (NWU), Evanston, Program of African Studies (PAS), November 2013.
How size and scale affects Sierra Leone’s post-war condition.Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, Düsseldorf, July 2013.
Repatriates revisited: How it feels to get old(er) ‘back home’ … and where is home anyway?Conference “Migration and Well-being: Research Frontiers”, organized by The International Sociological Association (ISA)/Research Committee on Sociology of Migration, Tel Aviv University, January 2013.
Towards liberating African Studies from the ‘triangular bias’: African-Asian interaction and exchange as a new research frontier.Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Philadelphia, November 2012.
Bodies of circulation: juxtaposing migration and adoption (discussant).Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, November 2012.
Transcending traditional tropes: Conceptualizing politics and policies in 21st century Upper Guinea Coast (with C. K. Højbjerg).4th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2012.
Surviving peer review.Anthropological Workshop, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., April 2012.
North-South dimensions in the construction of anthropological theory.Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, Düsseldorf, February 2012.
Smallness matters in Sierra Leone.Conference “Small Countries”, organized by Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm) and Andre Gingrich (Vienna), Landskrona, May 2012.
Coming of age and getting old(er) “back home”: Repatriates revisited.Conference of the Social Sciences History Association (SSHA), Boston, November 2011.
Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia.Conference “Asian Identities: Trends in a Globalized World”, University of Bangkok, February 2011.
The Upper Guinea Coast in transnational perspective.3rd International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., December 2010.
On the role of performances in the construction of identity and belonging.1st annual conference of the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) at the University of Leipzig, Panel: “Whose culture? Migrations and mutations of performance”, Leipzig, October 2010.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the (Nigerian) past in the reconstruction of Krio identity in Sierra Leone.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), September 2009.
The Pidgin factor of creoleness or: Postcolonial pidginization beats colonial creolization.Conference “Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization: A Transdiciplinary Approach”, University of Heidelberg, September 2009.
Über das Verhältnis ethnischer, religiöser und lokaler Identifikationen in Prozessen der Indigenisierung: Beispiele aus Indonesien und Sierra Leone.Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, May 2009.
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children.Interdisciplinary Workshop “Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe” / Section “Immigration and Migration”, European Science Foundation, European University Nicosia, February 2009.
Krio identity in post-war Sierra Leone.2nd International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, co-organized by the MPI for Social Anthropology and the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon (ICS): “Margins, Diasporas, Networks: The Upper Guinea Coast and the Making of the Atlantic”, Lisbon, December 2008.
The North-South politics of knowledge in the production of contemporary anthropological theory.Department of Social Anthropology, University of Capetown (UCT), December 2008.
Beyond the ‘C-word’.Conference “Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging”, Mansfield College, Oxford University, September 2008.
Pidginization as historical creolization’s contemporary outcome.Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology, Ljubljana, August 2008.
Postcolonial creolization beats colonial creolization.Department of Social Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, May 2008.
Comparative perspectives on postcolonial nation-building and concepts of nationhood in Africa.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology GASCA, Halle/S., October 2007.
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building: Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone.Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasilia (DAN), September 2007.
‘Out of Africa’ or ‘back home’? Expat children in Germany.Conference “Topologien des Reisens” / “Topologies of Travel”, University of Trier, June 2007.
The powerful presence of the past: Integration and conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast.1st International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., December 2006.
Die modernen Bedeutungen traditioneller Geheimgesellschaften in Sierra Leone.Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Leipzig, December 2006.
Creole populations’ roles in the creation of transethnic and national Identity: The cases of the Krio (Sierra Leone) and the Betawi (Indonesia).Intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), University of Cape Town, December 2006.
Integration and conflict as dimensions of cultural tradition, social dynamics and historical experience.Workshop of the Volkswagen Project “Travelling Models in Conflict Management”, University of Stellenbosch, November 2006.
Settlers in processes of nation-building: Examples from Sierra Leone and Indonesia.105th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anthropology (AAA), San José, USA, November 2006.
Creolization as ethnogenesis.Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, November 2006.
What’s alternative about alternative modernities?University of Indiana, Bloomington, November 2006.
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany: About children’s ‘return’ to a foreign home.Biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), Bristol, September 2006.
Social and political dynamics of creole concepts of culture and identity.University of Stellenbosch, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, March 2006.
Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany and some remarks about the ‘TCK’ issue.Conference of the Social Sciences History Association (SSHA), Amsterdam, March 2006.
‘Orang Betawi’: Construction and transformation of a creole notion of Jakartan identity.International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia, Jakarta, July 2005.
About the politicization of identity in Jakarta.Research Colloquium, Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, June 2005.
Comparing creole ethnographies of historicity in (post)colonial settler societies: The Krio (Freetown/Sierra Leone) and the Betawi (Jakarta).Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), Perth, November 2004.
Zum Verhältnis ethnischer, urbaner und nationaler Identität in Jakarta.Anthropological Colloquium, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig, June 2004.
Wenn deutsche Kinder ‘heim’kehren: Erfahrungen der Remigration nach Deutschland.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Hamburg, October 2003.
Creolization in context: Historical, social and political dimensions of intercultural and interethnic processes in Jakarta.MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., July 2003.
Creole communities as agents of national and state identity: The Orang Betawi of Jakarta.Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans, November 2002.
Repräsentationen von Modernität und Traditionalität in Jakarta: Die Wahl der ‘None Jakarta’ (Miss Jakarta).Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Göttingen, October 2001.
About studying Social Anthropology in Germany.Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, June 2001.
Migrants in Germany.Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, June 2001.
What about ‘tribalism’ in Germany? Is there an ethnic divide between the East and the West in post-wall Germany?Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, June 2001.
Orang Betawi, Orang Jakarta, Orang Indonesia: Konstruktion und Transformation ethnischen und transethnischen Gemeinwesens in Jakarta.Wissenschaftszentrum NRW / Science Center NRW, Düsseldorf, February 1999.
Kreolität im Vergleich: Krio vs. Betawi.Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, June 1998.
Representations of ethnicity and intercultural processes in Jakarta.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Frankfurt/M., October 1997.
Kulturelle Kreolisierung als Konzept alternativer Modernen.Institute of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, October 1997.
Creole languages as languages of ethnic and national identification.Union of Africanists in Germany (VAD) Conference, Humboldt University Berlin, September 1996.
Urbanität in Jakarta: Konzepte kultureller Synthese und Transformation.Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Münster, May 1996.
Writing in the field.Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, December 1995.
Nationale Identität im Spannungsfeld ethnischer und transethnischer Zuordnung.Institute of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, November 1995.
Ethnic and transethnic concepts of identity and intercultural relations in Sierra Leone.Institute of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, October 1995.
The Ojeh- and Odelay-Societies in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Secret societies as institutions of interethnic contact and transethnic identity in the urban context.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Vienna, September 1995.
Kulturelle und ethnische Identität im Licht ethnologischer Symbolforschung.Institute of Social Psychology, University of Münster, April 1995.
Ethnologische Forschung in Krisengebieten.Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, February 1995.
Nischenkultur im Lebenslauf von Ostberlinern.Institute of Social Psychology, University of Münster, November 1994.
Kreolen zwischen Sklaven- und Eliteideologie und -Kultur.Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, November 1994.
Zu den Hintergründen des Konfliktes in Sierra Leone.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Leipzig, October 1993.
Varianten kreolischer Identität in Sierra Leone.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Munich, October 1991.

Organization of conferences, workshops, panels, colloquia

Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa’ (2004-2024): Looking back, looking ahead.Workshop, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., July 2026.
Political Interactions and Exchange in Upper Guinea Coast Societies. Conference in Memory of Christian K. Højbjerg (1962-2014).Workshop, co-organized with A. Ménard and M. Bedert, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2024.
Towards Decolonizing Contemporary Decolonization Studies.Panel, co-organized with D. Ballestero, Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Munich, July 2023.
New Research and Publication Projects on the Upper Guinea Coast and (far) beyond.Workshop, Düsseldorf, December 2021.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, July 2019.
Language and the Decolonization of the African Coast.Conference co-organized by the MPI for Social Anthropology (J. Knörr) and Nelson Mandela University (Mariana Kriel and Ruth Boswell), Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth/Gqerberha, October 2018.
Book Launch: Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity.Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Stockholm, August 2018.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, July 2018.
Those Who Stay: How Out-migration Affects West African Societies.6th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., April 2018.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group IC_UGC Workshop.Düsseldorf, October 2017.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, July 2016.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, March 2015.
Creole Languages and Postcolonial Diversity in Comparative Perspective.5th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2014.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, July 2014.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, July 2013.
Workshop in the Field, Research Group IC_UGC.Freetown/Sierra Leone, March 2013.
Transcending Traditional Tropes: Conceptualizing Politics and Policies in 21st Century Upper Guinea Coast Societies.4th International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., September 2012.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, February 2012.
Workshop in the Field, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Gomoa Fetteh/Ghana, October 2011.
Annual Work-in-Progress Meeting, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Düsseldorf, March 2011.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Transnational Perspective.3rd International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., December 2010.
Workshop in the Field, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Cape Coast/Ghana, October 2010.
Margins, Diasporas, Networks: The Upper Guinea Coast and the Making of the Atlantic.2nd International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, co-organized with the Institute for Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, December 2008.
Workshop in the Field, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Banjul/Gambia, July 2008.
Comparative Perspectives on Postcolonial Nation-Building and Concepts of Nationhood in Africa.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Halle/S., October 2007.
Workshop in the Field, Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”.Freetown/Sierra Leone, March 2007.
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast.1st International Conference of the Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., December 2006.
Conflicts – Human Rights – Interventions.Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Halle/S., October 2005.
Childhood and Migration.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Hamburg, October 2003.
Representations of Modernity and Tradition in Processes of Cultural Transformation.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Göttingen, October 2001.
Concepts of Intercultural and Transcultural Identity in connection to Gender Theories.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, co-organized with J. Schlehe, Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Heidelberg, October 1999.
Virtual Diasporas.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Heidelberg, October 1999.
Representations of Ethnicity and Intercultural Processes in the Global City.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, Biennial conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Frankfurt/M., October 1997.
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives.Conference of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity” of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), University of Münster, October 1997.
Migration, Multiculturality and Identity as Areas of Anthropological Research.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity” of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), October 1995.
Anthropology of Migration.Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity” of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA), Bonn, July 1995.

Teaching

Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (since 2006, as Extraordinary Professor)

Seminars
  • Language and identity in postcolonial societies (WS2021)
  • Queer Anthropology (SS 2020)
  • Political interaction and exchange in the Global South (SS 2019)
  • Constructions of the postcolonial nation in comparative perspective (SS 2018)
  • Perspectives on cosmopolitanism (SS 2017)
  • Migration as experience and social practice (SS 2016)
  • History of anthropology (II): Functionalism, Structural Functionalism Structuralism (SS 2015)
  • Language and identity in postcolonial societies (SS 2014)
  • Ethnography of Southeast Asia II: Integration and Conflict (SS 2013)
  • Ethnography of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia (SS 2012)
  • African-Asian relationships: Migration, exchange, identity (WS 2011/12)
  • Anthropology of migration (SS 2011)
  • Anthropology of childhood (WS 2010/11)
  • Construction of identity and personhood in postcolonial societies (SS 2010)
  • Atlantic West Africa II (WS 2009/10)
  • Atlantic West Africa I (WS 2007/08)
  • Creole and (trans-)national identities in postcolonial societies (WS 2006/07)
  • Urban anthropology (SS 2006)

Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth (WS 2008/09, as Visiting Professor/Replacement)

Seminars
  • Economic anthropology
  • Ethnographic methods
  • Cultural theory: (Trans-)national, local, religious and ethnic identifications
  • Anthropology of the Upper Guinea Coast

Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society, Technology and Development, McGill University, Montreal (April 2008–September 2009, as Recurrent Visiting Research Professor)

Lectures
  • Nation-building and transnationalism in contexts of social and ethnic diversity (April 2008)
  • Theories of creolization (April 2008)

Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (DAN) (September 2007, as Visiting Professor)

Lectures
  • Postcolonial nationhood and transnational connections in comparative perspective (September 2007)
  • Ethnic and transethnic identifications among creole populations (September 2007)

Institute for African Studies, University of Leipzig (WS 2004/05, as Lecturer)

Seminar
  • Sierra Leone: History, culture, society

University of Indonesia/Jakarta (2000–02, as Visiting Research Fellow)

Seminars/Lectures
  • Identity in Jakarta (2001)
  • Creole societies (2001)
  • Religious identity and ethnic differentiation (2002)

Institute for Social Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Graduate School, University of Münster (1995–1999, as Scientific Coordinator and Senior Lecturer)

Seminars
  • Anthropological methodology (WS 1998/99)
  • Collective identities (SS 1998)
  • Anthropology of West Africa (WS 1997/98)
  • Urban anthropology I and II (SS 1997)
  • PhD colloquium (WS 1996/97)
  • Conflict and integration in periods of radical social transformation (SS 1996)
  • Biographic research (WS 1995/96)
  • Ethnographic methods (SS 1995)

Free University of Berlin, Institute for Sociology (WS 1996/97, as Lecturer)

Seminar
  • Urban culture and identity in comparative perspective: examples from Africa and Southeast Asia

University of Cologne, Institute for Social Anthropology (WS 1994/95, as Lecturer)

Seminar
  • Neo-African identity: the case of Sierra Leone

University of Sierra Leone, Freetown/Sierra Leone (1991–92, as Visiting Fellow)

Seminars/Lectures
  • Creole and pidgin languages as interethnic means of communication (1991)
  • Ethnic identities and nation-building in postcolonial societies (1991)

Membership in scientific, academic and political organizations & networks

Scientific and academic organizations

  • European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
  • European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)
  • Vereinigung der Afrikanisten in Deutschland (VAD) / Union of Africanists in Germany
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA) / German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)
  • West African Research Association (WARA)
  • Age and Generations Network (AGENET)
  • Anthropology of Fascisms (ANTHROFA)
  • Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity (ARE)
  • Decolonial Anthropology Network (DAN)
  • Anthropology of Children and Youth (ACYNet)
  • LeadNet, Max Planck Society
  • Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society
  • Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) / Assembly of German Universities
  • African Studies Association (ASA) (formerly)
  • American Anthropological Association (AAA) (formerly)
  • Social Sciences History Association (SSHA) (formerly)
  • Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) (formerly)

Political organizations (selection)

  • Flüchtlingsrat Nordrhein-Westfalen (Refugee Council North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Netzwerk Migration in Europa (Network Migration in Europe)
  • Pro Asyl Germany
  • International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
  • Rights in Exile
  • Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
  • Working Group “Migration and Diversity”, Social Democratic Party of Germany

Leadership roles in scientific and academic bodies (selection)

  • Member of the Executive Board, Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (since 2011)
  • Mentor, Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society (since 2009)
  • Member of the Employees Representative Council, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2022-2026)
  • Representative of Scientific Staff, Max Planck Society (2012–2015, 2018–2021)
  • Project Head (with G. Schlee) and Principal Investigator, Volkswagen Foundation Project: “Travelling Models in Conflict Management: a comparative research and network building project in six African countries (Chad, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sudan)” (2006–2011) https://www.eth.mpg.de/3418057/vw_project_travelling_models
  • Head of the Project Development Group, MPI for Social Anthropology (2005–2007)
  • Editorial Board, Integration and Conflict Studies, MPI for Social Anthropology, Berghahn (since 2005)
  • Board member of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) (2003–2007)
  • Chairwoman of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity” and Associate Board Member of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA) (1995–2003)
  • Representative of Scientific Staff, Faculty of History/Philosophy, University of Münster (1998–1999)

Project evaluation and reviewing activities for funding agencies (selection)

  • European Science Foundation (ESF)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft Austria
  • Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (DFH)
  • Robert Bosch Stiftung
  • German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT)
  • National Science Centre, Poland

Consultant and advisory functions (selection)

  • Expert witness and Country of Origin expert / asylum claims concerning West Africa (Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone) and Insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines), working with lawyers, legal advisory organizations, state institutions in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Singapore, Hongkong (recurrent)
  • Expert/advisor/consultant concerning human rights issues in West Africa (Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone) and Insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines), working with legal advisory and human rights organizations (recurrent)
  • Scientific advisor to members and work groups of the German Parliament (recurrent)
  • Advisory Board on Migration Policy, Social Democratic Party (SPD), Berlin (2000–2003)
  • Counsellor for expatriates, repatriates (to be) (Germany, Switzerland) (recurrent)
  • Freelancer at the German Foundation for Development (DSE), Bad Honnef (1990/91)
  • Teacher of English and German as foreign languages (VHS and ASG Düsseldorf, 1985–1990)
  • Volunteer in a law-firm specialized in immigration law, Santa Ana, California (1983)
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