Vita
EDUCATION
07/2016
Habilitation in Social and Cultural Anthroology, University of Zürich (Title:
Musa – an essay (or experiment) in the anthropology of the individual.)
05/2001
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthroology, University of Bayreuth (Title: Zur Komplexität bäuerlicher Feldarbeit in Afrika – eine Fallstudie in einem Manga-Dorf (Niger) (“On the Complexity of Peasant Agricultural Work – A Case Study in a Manga Village (Niger)”).
1996
Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthroology, Freie Universität Berlin (Title: Zum Textverständnis von Hausa-Lesern – eine literaturethnologische Feldstudie ("On the Interpretation of Literature by Hausa Readers - A Case Study in the Anthropology of Literature”)).
EMPLOYMENT
12/2016-03/2017
Visiting Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University.
05/2008-09/2009 und 09/2010-12/2016
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
July 2016
Research stay at the “Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (Lesc)”, University of Paris Ouest, project title: “The individuality of decision-making”.
10/2010-02/2011
Research stay at the Faculty of Arts, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria, project title: “Musa – an essay (or experiment) in the anthropology of the individual”.
09/2009-08/2010
Research fellow at the International Research Centre “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History”, Humboldt University Berlin.
05/2006-04/2008
Postdoctoral researcher, project title: “Patterns of Communication in a Hausa Language Community”, project leader: myself, Mainz University.
01/2003-12/2005
Postdoctoral researcher, project title: “Languages and Cultures in the Lake Chad Region”, project leader: Professor Kastenholz, Mainz University. Funding: Special Research Program (SFB) 295.
10/2001-06/2002
Temporary Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin, October.
OTHER OCCUPATION
ZEITRAUM
WS 2016
Teaching substitute for Prof. Peter Finke, Department of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies, University of Zurich.
Seit 2015
Co-editor (with Albert Piette) of book series “Anthropology, Existence and Individuals”, Duncker & Humblot Publishers, Berlin.
Seit 04/2015
Editor of “Sociologus – Journal for Social Anthropology”, Duncker and Humblot Publishers, Berlin, since.
06-08/1995
Research for the German Foundation for International Development (DSE; now known as Inwent) on the production and distribution of publications in Hausa and Zarma in Niger. Funding: DSE.