From April 2020 until June 2025
Researcher in the Research Group Sociology of Law
2019
Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg
2018-2022
Co-editor of the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
2017
PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Bern
2012 – 2020
Researcher and teaching staff at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
2008 – 2011
MA in Anthropology of Transnationalism and the State (Major) and Gender Studies (Minor) at the University of Bern
2005 – 2008
BA in Social Anthropology (Major) and Psychology (Minor) at the University of Bern
Selected Publications
New
zus. mit Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, u.a.: Stories of systemic failure? Landscaping the rights of nature in Europe. In: Journal of legal anthropology. 8(2024),1; S. 46-76
Open Access
Humans as those who must care and act: mobilizing rights of nature in anti-mining struggles in Ecuador. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of social and cultural anthropology. 149(2024),2; S. 297-312
Open Access
Trained to disbelieve: the normalisation of suspicion in a Swiss asylum administration office. In: Geopolitics. (2021); 24 S.
Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office. In: Comparative migration studies. 9(2021),4; 16 S.
Open Access
Asylum matters. On the front line of administrative decision-making. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Open Access
Teaching
Spring semester 2019
Mit Recht zu Gerechtigkeit? Debatten aus der Rechtsanthropologie (Achieving Justice through Law? Debates from Legal Anthropology), University of Fribourg
Spring semester 2013
Anthropologie der Bürokratie (Anthropology of Bureaucracy), University of Bern
Autumn semester 2012 and 2013
Einführung in die Sozialanthropologie (Introduction to Social Anthropology), University of Bern