Education

2003 PhD in Social Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin

1997 MA in Social Anthropology and Balkan Studies at the Free University Berlin

Positions held

since 2019 Research and Publications Coordinator, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

2016-2019 Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna

2013-2016 Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna

2004-2013 Assistant Professor and Research Project Leader (2010-2012) at the Dept. of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University Zurich

2003-2004 Research Fellow of the McArthur Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)

2000-2002 Research Associate at the Institute for Migration Studies and Intercultural Research of the University Osnabruck

Participation in third-party-funded projects

2010-2012 Zwischen Globalismus und nationalstaatlicher Ordnung: Die Pfingstbewegung als Herausforderung für den Nationalstaat in Griechenland  (Principal Investigators: Shalini Randeria und Evangelos Karagiannis; Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

2008-2012 Europeanization, Multiple Modernities and Collective Identities - Religion, Nation and Ethnicity in an Enlarging Europe (Principal Investigators: Wilfried Spohn, Wolfgang Knöbl, Matthias König; Funded by the VW-Foundation)

2003-2004 Simultaneity of Migrant Incorporation: Local Ties with Global Reach and the Everyday Practices of Global Security (Principal Investigator: Nina Glick Schiller; Funded by the McArthur Foundation)

2000-2002 Migration and Cultural Difference in Municipalities: A Historico-Systematic Examination (Principal Investigators: Michael Bommes und Klaus Bade; Funded by the VW-Foundation)

Political anthropology, anthropology of religion (focus on Pentecostal Christianity), anthropology of globalization and modernity, migration studies, minority issues, theory and methods of anthropology, anthropology and sociology of organisations

Balkans (Bulgaria and Greece), Eastern Europe, Germany  

Courses at the Free University Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, University of Zurich, Danube University Krems, Panteion University Athens

Teaching topics: Theory and Methods in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Globalization, Modernity, Religious Movements, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Migration, Balkans

Language skills: English, Greek, Bulgarian, French, Albanian (elementary)