Academic Training
1992 PhD Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
1983 M.A. (Magister Artium), Anthropology (major) & African Languages and Linguistics and History (minor), Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz (Germany)

Academic Experience
2006-present Akademische Oberrätin (equivalent to senior lecturer) at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz University
1992-2006 Akademische Rätin (equivalent to senior lecturer) at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz University
1983-1992 Wissenschaftliche Angestellte (equivalent to lecturer) at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz University

Research Experience (most recent projects):
2007-2008
Research project with graduate students in anthropology: Französische Kolonialsoldaten im Mainzer Raum nach dem 1. Weltkrieg (French Colonial Soldiers in the Mainz Area after World War I)
(www.ifeas.uni mainz.de/kolonialsoldaten/)
2003-2008
Senior researcher in the research project Allianzen und kulturelle Nachbarschaft. Untersuchungen zum Wandel von Kontaktsituationen in Südäthiopien(Alliances and Cultural Neighbourhood. Comparative Studies of Changing Cultural Contact in Southern Ethiopia) Project coordinators: Prof I. Strecker and Prof T. Bierschenk (Mainz University). Funding is provided by the German Research Foundation DFG.
2002-present Memory, Politics and Culture in Post-Genocide Rwanda (fieldwork in Rwanda: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009)

Teaching Experience (since 1983)
Selected Courses, Mainz University, 2001-2006:
Grundstudium (1st and 2nd year):
Social Relations and Kinship; History and Political Organisation in Central Africa; Rwanda (History, Ethnicity, Genocide)
Hauptstudium (post-intermediate examination)
Student Research Project “Rwanda”; Material Culture; Violence and Memory; Contemporary African Art; Exhibition Seminars

National University of Rwanda, March/April 2001, 2002 & 2004
(Short term appointment, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service/DAAD), Undergraduate (1st year): Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Field Research
2001-present: Research in Rwanda on memory and politics in the aftermath of genocide (research stays 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009)
2000: Research in Southern Ethiopia on clothing and identity
1986-1990: Field work in former Zaire (DR Congo) on the political history of the Bolongo (field work periods: 1986, 1987, 1990, total of 16 months)

Fellowships/Scholarships
09/2009-06/2010: Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
1987: DAAD Fieldwork stipend and Fieldwork Stipend of the Sulzmann-Foundation, Mainz University for research in Zaire
1986: Fieldwork Stipend of the Sulzmann-Foundation for research in Zaire
1983: Scholarship of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz