since 05/2021 departmental teaching staff and (since 06/2023) programme coordinator of the MA Gender Studies at the working area Gender Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.
03/2020 - 03/2021 Deputy Professor of Sociology in Social Work, Faculty V (Department of Social Work), Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
01/2016 - 02/2020 Non-university work as a counsellor for refugees (focus: asylum and residence law), Flüchtlingshilfe Lippe e.V. Detmold, Germany.
11/2009 - 12/2015 PhD scholarship holder in the research project "Politics of remembrance and national celebrations in Africa", Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
04/2003 - 07/2009 Diploma Programme in Sociology,
Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.
Research Areas: Gender research, migration research, national and international migration law.
Areas of focus in research and teaching: Refuge and asylum, intersectionality, postcolonial approaches, biographical research.
Research regions: Western Balkans, West Africa
programme coordinator and advisor of the MA Gender Studies
Sociology; Gender Studies; Migration Studies; Postcolonial Theories; Qualitative Research (Ethnography; Biographical Research); Migration Law
