Primære forskningsområder

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Histories of Migration specialized in the following topics, perspectives, methods, and regions:

• Fugitive Histories of Migration in the Context of Colonialism/-ity
• Border(lands), Citizenship and Belonging
• Inequality and Intersectionality
• Ethnography and Historical Research
• Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, United States

Aktuel forskning

Besides publishing several articles on my fields of expertise and interest, I am currently writing a second monograph that reconstructs the fugitive histories embedded in Fort Allen, a U.S. military base in Puerto Rico. Temporarily repurposed in the early 1980s as a detention center for Haitian refugees deported from Florida after crossing the Caribbean Sea in flimsy boats, this colonial and militarized space became a testing ground for the offshoring of refugee detention – a practice that has since proliferated worldwide.

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Academic degrees

2019: Doctorate in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, summa cum laude

2015: Master of Arts in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin

2013: Bachelor of Arts in European Ethnology (major) and Cultural History and Theory (minor), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Academic positions

2025 - present: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Saxo Institute, AMIS Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, since 01/2025

2019-2024: Assistant Professor, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2023-2024: Visiting Scholar, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Pacific Office

2021-2022: Associate Professor (substitute), Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, 2021-2022

2020: Guest Professor, Institute for International Development, University of Vienna, Spring and Autumn 2020

2016-2019: PhD fellow at the German-Mexican Research Training Group "Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalization", Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016-2019

2014-2015: Student Assistant, Chair of Sociology, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2013-2014: Student Assistant, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin

2011-2012: Student Assistant, Language Center, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Fellowships, Awards, Prizes

2023: Grant for the 12-months "History of Migration" Fellowship at UC Berkeley and the GHI Pacific Office, VolkswagenStiftung

2022: Funding from the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies (funding line "Symposia, Workshops and Conferences") to conduct an the artistic-scientific laboratory "Narrating Violence: Artistic Practices and Research from Latin America"

2021: Funding of the Erasmus+ Program for teaching a course at Universidade de São Paulo

2021: Funding of the School of Culture and Society (Aarhus University) for realizing innovative teaching concepts

2013, 2019, 2020: Several DAAD-sponsored scholarships for travels abroad

2016-2019: Fellowship at the International Research Training Group "Between Spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalization", Scholarship by the German Research Foundation

2018: Best Paper Award, World Congress of the Association for Borderlands Studies

2017: Research stay at the Laboratoire d’Excellence “Observatoire Hommes-Milieux Oyapock” in Cayenne, Scholarship by CNRS

2017: Research stay, Columbia University, New York City

2017: Research stay, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social and El Colegio de México, Mexico City

2015-16: Research stay and language training, Fast Forward Language Institute and Universidade de São Paulo, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2015: Research stay and language training, Eurocentres and Bibliothèque nationale de France, La Rochelle and Paris, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2014-2016: MA and pre-PhD Scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2013-2014: Scholarship by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Deutschlandstipendium)

2013: Scholarship for Global and Sustainable Development ASA, Quito

2010-2011: Erasmus scholarship, London Metropolitan University

Non-academic work experience

Federal Foreign Office, Berlin; Goethe-Institute, Berlin; Goethe Institut, Madrid; NGO SIGVOL, Quito; Médecins sans Frontières, Berlin, 2011; NGO Barcelona Voluntària

Memberships and Professional Functions (current)

Editorial board member, Ensaios de Geografia

Secretary-Treasurer of RC56 (Historical Sociology), International Sociological Association

Member of the DFG-funded Scientific Network "Qualitative Social Research and Transregional Theory-Building in the Context of Global Sociologies"

Member of several scientific associations: Puerto Rican Studies Association; FG DeKolonial - Fachgesellschaft für rassismuskritische, postkoloniale und dekoloniale Theorie und Praxis, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, International Sociological Association (Member of Research Committees RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity, RC35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis, RC56 Historical Sociology), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Member of the Section Development Sociology and Social Anthropology and of the Working Group Historical Sociology)

Sprogkundskaber

I speak German, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese; and I have some basic knowledge of Catalan and some Kreyòl from Haiti and Guyane. I also learn Danish at the moment.