Short Biography

since 2020 Pre-Doc Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne 

11/2022 –  12/2024 Visiting Doctoral Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Lived Religion Research Group, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2019-2020 Lecturer (parental leave replacement) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne

2018-2019 Visiting student and fieldwork at the Institute of Ethnology (Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, PR China (Scholarship by the Chinese Scholarship Council)

2017-2019 Project Coordinator Excellence Forum "CHINA global: ideas, value, practices" (DFG funded) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne

2017  Summer School and Fieldwork "Chinese changes and the Silk road since 1840", organized by the Institute of Ethnology (in Chinese) of Lanzhou University, PR China (Promos-DAAD Scholarship)

2016-2017 Project Coordinator Diversity and Inclusion at the Department of the development volunteer service weltwärts at Engagement Global gGmbH, Bonn 

2015 Magistra Artium in Sinology/Modern China (major), French Philology, Information Processing and Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne 

2014-2015 Research Assistant at DLR- Project Management Agency, European and International Cooperation, Bonn

2008-2009 Chinese Language Study at Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, PR China (Scholarship by DAAD/Chinese Scholarship Council)

Thematic Interests and Regional Focus

Anthropology of East- and Southeastasia, Globalization, Migration, Transnationalism, Diaspora, Religion (Islam), Ethics and Morality, Secularism, Identity Politics

China, Taiwan, Chinese Diaspora in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

Research Projects

"Inclusive Practices of a Globalized 'Chinese-Taiwanese Islam' amid Taiwan's Covenantal Pluralism" (Working Title Ph.D. Project)

"Constructing transnational identity through religion: the Indian Sikh diaspora in Cologne" (11/2019-01/2020)

"China's northwestern women's mosques between state, religion and modernity" (07/2017, 06/2018, 08/2018- 01/2019)

Courses and Seminars

Globalization of Ethics, Spirituality and Religion (winter 24/25)

Migration and the Globalization of Religion (summer 24)

Anthropology of the New Cosmopolitanism (winter 21/22)

 Anthropology of Islam (winter 21/22)

Anthropology of China (summer 2021, winter 23/24)

Religion in China (Summer term 2020)

Introduction to research methods and academic writing (winter 19/20, 20/21)

Presentations

January 22, 2024 “The Struggle of Shifting Field and Site: From Doing Research on Chinese  Muslims to Researching Muslims in Taiwan”, The 2024 Workshop for the Studies of Islam and Muslims in China, Theme: Dealing with Uncertainty: New Approaches to Feasibility Studies on Muslims in China, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan 

May 01, 2023 “Anthropology of Islam and East Asian Societies”, Lived Religion Research Group Colloquium, Institute of Ethnology (IOE), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

January 09, 2023 “Recovery and Nostalgia after the ‘Disruption’ of a Women’s Mosque in Northwestern China”, 2023 Re-envisioning China Ethnography (RCE) Workshop: The Next Move: How to Face the Multi-aspects of Disruption about Hui Muslims in Modern China, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan

August 4, 2022 “Studying People and People’s in Contemporary People's Republic of China”, Annual Meeting of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Scientific Network “Anthropology and China(s)”, Heidelberg University, Germany

December 09, 2021 “Shifting Meanings of Qingzhen and Halal concepts in Contemporary China”, Workshop Asian Food and Power in a Global Context, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic