Social movements, political activism & volunteer work
Trade and gift giving / fundraising of NGOs
Ego documents
Popular media and media theory
Serial narratives (police procedural “Tatort”)
Cultural theory debates
Anthropology of Space
Research on advertising, leisure, and “home”
Qualitative methods
Education
10/2010–9/2014 PhD studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, supervised by Prof. Dr. Regina F. Bendix and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Tschofen
9/2010 Master’s degree with distinction (1.0) in Empirical Cultural Science, Modern and Contemporary History and Sociology at the University of Tübingen
10/2005–5/2006 Erasmus studies at the Charles University in Prague
10/2003–10/2010 Master’s studies at the University of Tübingen
Work Experience
From 10/2014 Senior Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
07/2014 – 09/2014 Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
10/2013 – 3/2014 Academic Associate with teaching appointment at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
10/2010 – 9/2013 Academic Associate at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: DFG Project “Quotidian Integration and Social Positioning of Pulp Novels and Television Series”
Other Activities and Memberships
2021–2023 Delegate for the Junior Researchers at the ISEK
Since 2017 Member of the Board of Directors of the SGV – Zürich Section
2016–2017 Committee member reviewing submissions for the teaching credit of the University of Zurich, within the framework of the teaching committee
2015–2018 Representative of the non-professorial academic staff (VAUZ) of the teaching committee of the University of Zurich
2015–2017 Representative of the non-professorial academic staff (VAUZ, Deputy) of Zurich University’s Personnel Committee
HS 2016 Representative of the non-professorial academic staff (VAUZ) of Zurich University’s Office for Gender Equality Committee
2015–2020 Research management support at ISEK – Popular Culture Studies together with Christine Oldörp and Tobias Scheidegger
2011 to 2015 Member of the Board of the Centre for Theory and Methodology in Cultural Studies (ZTMK)
Member of the following organisations and committees:
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (SGV)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv,)
Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore [International Society for Ethnology and Folklore] (SIEF)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Gesellschaft für Medienforschung (GfM)
Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG)
Volkskundliche Kommission für Niedersachsen, Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung (KPUV) of the dgv
Women’s and Gender Studies of the dgv as well as the section of Cultural Knowledge of the KWG
