Research Projects
2018-2023
"Urban Ecologies in Southeast Asia. Humans, Environment and Ghosts in the City". (German Research Foundation, DFG, Project Director)
2015-2018
"Plural Ecologies. Anthropological Perspectives
on Southeast Asia"
(German Research Foundation,
Member of the Research Network)
2015-2018
"Religion, Media and Materiality. Spiritual Economies in Southeast Asia." (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2011-2015
„The Global Bazaar - Markets as places of economic and social inclusion” (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2005-2010
“Transnational Networks, Religion and New Migration (German Research Foundation, Project Director)
2001-2005
“Transnational Religion – Women‘s Congregations as Actors in the Process of Globalization“. (German Research Foundation, with Prof. Dr. Ute Luig)
1998-2000
“Gender, Religion and Modernity”. (German Research Foundation, with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba)
Regional interests/Fieldwork
- Vietnam/Southeast Asia
- Europe - Asia
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- USA
- India
Theoretical interests:
Media, Religion, Materiality
- Urban Ecologies
- Transnational Networks
- Religion and Migration
- Urban Anthropology
- Postsocialism
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship
- Markets and Diversity
- Gender Studies
- Second Generation Migrants