Academic Positions and Fellowships

since 04/2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate | Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Freie Universität Berlin

09/2020 - 03/2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 1171 ‘Affective Societies’
Department of Political and Social Sciences | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin

04/2016 – 03/2019
Ph.D. Scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Federal Ministry of Education and Research

2015 – 2016
Collaboration on the project: ‘Land restitution and the moral modernity of
the new South African state’ | Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern

Winter Term 2015
Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Tel Aviv University Israel
Collaboration with Prof. Dr. Nissim Mizrachi

Education

2016 – 2020
Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin:

‘The Emotional Experience of Asylum. Life-Worlds of Afghan Refugees in Berlin’

Thesis Defense on 20 April 2020 | Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler

2013 – 2015
M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities | Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Cologne

2008 – 2011
B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities | Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Cologne

B.A. in Musicology
Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Institute of Musicology
University of Cologne

Languages

German | Farsi | Dari | English

Frensh | Italian (basic knowledge)

Summer Term 2021
Racisms in Germany (Seminar)

Anthropology of Migration (Seminar)

Winter Term 2020
Afghan Life-Worlds in Berlin (Seminar)

Research and Teaching Interests

• Racism and Xenophobia
• Psychological Anthropology (Emotion, Identity, Recognition)
• Postcolonial Studies
• Anthropology of Migration
• Social Inequalities and Marginalization
• Anthropology of Music
• Ethnographic Methods

Regional Focus

Iran | Afghanistan | South Asia (esp. India)

Engaged Anthropology

Volunteer work with refugees in Berlin since 2015

2020

Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls. Lebenswelten afghanischer Geflüchteter in Berlin.
Wiesbaden: Springer VS

2018

Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Sprachmittlung. In: Seybold, Joachim / Kraatz, Silvia (Hrsg.): Medizinische Flüchtlingsversorgung. Ein praxisorientiertes Handbuch. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. 195-199.

2015

Probleme und Möglichkeiten einer universellen Ethik. Reflexionen für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologen.
Göttingen: Optimus Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN 9783863761349

2011 

Bedrohung durch den Islam. Fundamentalismus & Menschenrechte.
Göttingen: Optimus Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN 9783941274877

2010 

Militanter Islam und Demokratisierung in Indonesien.
Göttingen: Optimus Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN 9783941274549