Research projects
Urban Vignettes: "Walking Hanoi" and "Walking Jakarta"
- The "Exhibiting Knowledge| Knowledge in Exhibitions" Doctoral Research Group"
- On the materiality of (forced) migration. From ‘bare necessities’ to ‘promising things’ (BMBF research project)
- PhD programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen: Wissensordnungen, Materialitäten, Subjektivierungen"
- GISCA - CeMIS Summer School 2016: "Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia"
- Seed Grant CETREN: "The New City in Asia, Africa and Europe between Utopia, Neotopia and Dystopia"
- DORISEA - CETREN Summer School 2014: "Cityscapes and New Religiosities in Asia"
- Workshop: Performing Identity: Ethnicity and Ethno-nationalism in the South-east Asian Borderland Region of North-east India
- DORISEA: Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia
- Graduiertenkolleg: Dynamiken von Raum und Geschlecht
- Old Images Come Back to Kiribati – and New Ones Emerge: Film Documents Archived in Germany and Their Value as Cultural Heritage for a Pacific Atoll Country in an Age of Climate Change
- Spirits in modern Southeast Asia
- Dynamics of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
- Ancestor Worship and Pilgrimage in Late Socialist Vietnam
- Migration and Religion
- 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)
- PhD projects
2018-2022 PI in the Volkswagen funded doctoral research group "Exhibiting Knowledge| Knowledge in Exhibitions – An Epistemic History of Exhibitions in the Second Half of the 20th Century“. Supervision of the Lisa Ludwig's doctoral project: Knowledge Production Revisited: Knowledge Production of Ethnographic Displays about the Americas in the second half of the 20th century from a German-German Perspective.
Coordination and speaker of the competence network "Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia" (DORISEA), funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The DORISEA project's blog can be found here.