Profile

Professional career

• since 01/2024
  Co-leader of the working group "Plants and politics", LeipzigLab, Leipzig University
• since 09/2020
  Academic staff, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University
• 04/2019 - 04/2021
  Project lead of research on “Gold mining in and beyond Sudan’s border areas” in frame of the DFID-funded "Researching Border Conflicts Through Local Networks" programme with the Rift Valley Institute (Nairobi, London) in cooperation with the Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales au Soudan (CEDEJ, Khartoum)
• 01/2019 - 03/2020
  Post-doctoral researcher in the DFID-funded project "The urban land nexus and inclusive urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Khartoum" of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex) in cooperation with the University of Khartoum and the Ministry of Urban Planning, Sudan
• 11/2018 - 12/2018
  Research contract “Sudan/Economic Aspects”, Federal Foreign Office, Germany
• 07/2016 - 12/2017
  Urgent Anthropology Fellow, British Museum (Ancient Egypt and Sudan) and Royal Anthropological Institute, London; Project: “Date palm production and socio-economic changes along the Nile in Northern Sudan”
• 01/2016 - 06/2016
  Fundraising and Reporting Officer at the Organization for Voluntary Humanitarian Assistance (ASSIST), Khartoum, Sudan
• 04/2015 - 10/2015
  Reviewer and copy-editor of livelihood studies by regional universities in frame of FAO’s Sudan Food Security Policy and Strategy Capacity Building programme (2013-2016)
• 01/2015 - 12/2015
  Working contract for “An annotated bibliography of social research on the Nuba Mountains”, Chr. Michelsen Institute Bergen
• 01/2015 - 12/2015
  Guest editor of the Ahfad Journal (Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman)
• 10/2013 - 09/2014
  Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Master programme “Gender and Governance” at the Regional Institute for Gender, Diversity, Peace, and Rights (RIGDPR), Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan
• 04/2013 - 08/2013
  Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Germany
• 01/2009 - 06/2012
  PhD Researcher, Collaborative Research Centre 586 “Difference and Integration”, Project D9: “Market institutions in the relations of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan, Sudan”, Prof. Richard Rottenburg, University of Halle
• 11/2008 - 04/2009
  Data processor for EC-funded Sudan Productive Capacity Recovery Programme (SPCRP) – Model Projects
• 01/2007 - 12/2007
  Working contract (Ethnographic report: “Historical narratives and territorial claims. The case of Tira Mandi, South Kordofan, Sudan“), Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle
• 10/2004 - 12/2006
  Student Assistant, Collaborative Research Centre 586 “Difference and Integration”, Project D9: “Land and water rights, and the relation of nomadic and sedentary people in South Kordofan“, Prof. Rottenburg, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle
• 07/2001 - 12/2019
  Co-partner of the publishing company Ille & Riemer GbR

Education

• 01/2008 - 12/2008
  Scholarship holder for PhD research, German National Academic Foundation
• 01/2007 - 12/2012
  PhD studies Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle, Thesis: “Projections, plans and projects. Development as the extension of organizing principles and its consequences in the rural Nuba Mountains, Sudan“
• 10/2005 - 03/2006
  Scholarship holder for MA research, German Academic Exchange Service, MA thesis: “Shaybun und Shawabna – Historische Narrative um einen ungewissen Ort und eine ungewisse Gruppe in den Nuba Mountains, Sudan“
• 10/2001 - 12/2006
  Magister Artium of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Musicology, University of Leipzig / University of Halle

• Module "Culture and technology: Mapping"

  SS2023, Institute for African Studies, Leipzig University

• Lecture and seminar "Methoden in den Afrikawissenschaften", Bachelor

  SS 2021-2023, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

• Exercise "Wirtschaft in Afrika - Zwischen Mikro- und Makroperspektive", Bachelor

  SS 2021-2023, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

• Exercise "Global economic entanglements in Africa", Bachelor

  WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

• Remedial course, Bachelor

  WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

• Exercise "Professional fields of African Studies", Bachelor

  WS 2020/21 - 2023/24, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University

• Course "Academic Writing and Publishing"

  SS 2018, National Research Center, Khartoum, Sudan

• Seminar "Identity and Multiculturalism"

  SS 2014, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

• Seminar "Global and Regional Governance"

  WS 2013/14, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

• Seminar "Research Methodologies"

  WS 2013/14, Master Gender and Governance, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan

• Seminar "Sudan Studies"

  SS 2013, Master Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

• Seminar "Introduction to Economic Anthropology"

  SS 2013, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle; SS 2010, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

• Seminar "Introduction to Political and Legal Anthropology"

  WS 2011/12, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle

• Seminar "Organizational Change and Development"

  SS 2011, Bachelor Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Halle