I am a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the LMU Munich. My research interests include (more-than-) human environmental entanglements, identity politics, migration and mobility in both rural and urban settings. I pay special attention to the interplay of political forces and local responses, and the ways these interactions shape individuals’ lives. My conceptual approaches are informed by my regional expertise in the Americas and Oceania, including transpacific connections, and I am engaged in a range of mostly collaborative research projects. Currently, I lead the Reinhart Koselleck-Project on Planetary Healing, investigating novel efforts to foster social transformation and decolonization as responses to climate change.
I am also the co-speaker of the Collaborative Research Center 1369 “Cultures of Vigilance”, and I act as PI in the International Doctorate Program “Re-Thinking Environment”. I am editorial board member of American Ethnologist and co-editor of Sociologus – A Journal for Social Anthropology. At LMU, I am Dean of Research of the Faculty of the Study of Culture, and I coordinate the LMU-Latin America Network.
For more information, please visit her LMU webpage and read her publications