Please visit my new website at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

I've completed a PhD in Social Anthropology at LSE in July 2009. Based on 18 months fieldwork in several villages of the Enshi region of central China, my thesis dealt with the changes in everyday moralities as they are experienced by ordinary people in contemporary rural China. More concretely I describe and analyze family, work, ritual and local politics.

Before I came to the LSE, I studied at the Institut fuer Ethnologie und Afrikanistik, LMU Munich, and during my two years in China I was a teaching fellow in the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

I am a member of several research networks, including the NYLON Research Network, the Conflicts in Time ESRC Seminar Series, the Gambling Research Network, and the China in Comparative Perspective Network. 

Publications

Presentations, Talks, Conferences

Fieldwork Reflections in China

LSE students divided over Tibet

NYLON Research Network

Gambling Research Network

China in Comparative Perspective Network

Conflicts in Time ESRC Research Network and Seminar Series