EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION
Since 04/2016
Habilitation in Anthropology: Die Syro-malabarischen Kirche in Kerala und ihr transnationaler Einflussbereich auf die ersten keralesischen Migrationsbewegungen nach Deutschland
02/2018 – 03/2018
Center for Advanced Studies Fellowship at the Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi
02/2010 - 03/2016
Doctorate in Religious Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Filmic Funerals and the Discourse of the Good Death - A Subject-Related and Programmatic Approach for Religious Studies Film Analysis (summa cum laude)
08/2012 - 11/2012
Visiting Researcher am Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
08/2011 - 12/2011
Visiting Researcher am Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
09/2010
Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Social Systems Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi
07/2008 - 08/2008
Brief study at the Department of Anthropology University of California at Berkeley supported by the Individualfond of the Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg
10/2005 - 12/2009
Master's degree in Ethnology and Religious Studies at the University of Heidelberg as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e. V.). (2007-2009) Topic of the master thesis: "The Glocal German Ayurvedascape - A Case Study from South Germany".
10/2003 - 10/2005
Master's degree in Ethnology and Classical Indology at the University of Heidelberg
