Vita

Sarah Ewald, M.A.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

since 04/2018
Research associate at the department for ethnology, Institute for Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen

since 03/2016
Doctorate in ethnology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
Topic: Alltag, Arbeit und Prekarität im Politischen Ausnahmezustand

2004-2011
Master's degree in ethnology and geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Main focus: Political ecology, labor, visual media, South Asia.
Final thesis on migration between Europe and West Africa
(accompanying film: Dakar dem Dik - Dakar there and back, Senegal, Mali 2012, 32 min)

2002 – 2003
Diploma studies in Forestry and Environment, University of Freiburg

EMPLOYMENT

Summer semester 2016
Practical film seminar on the topic of flight, experiences of flight and everyday worlds.
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

2012 – 2016
Conception and editing of scientific documentaries
South Asia Institute and Karl Jaspers Center - Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg
Employed in the following research projects:
- Youth and Media (India)
- Negotiating religion (Pakistan)

since 2012
Freelance documentary filmmaker

2009 – 2011
Conception and editing of scientific documentaries in the SFB Ritual Dynamics 619, University Heidelberg
Employed in the research projects: Borders, Rituals, and Reflexivity (Pakistan) and Agency and Territorial Rituals (India).