Socio-Cultural Anthropology

• Visual Anthropology
• Material Culture, (Contemporary) Indigenous Art
• Globalization, Tranantionalism, Identity, Sports
• Cryptocurrency

Regions

• East Africa/ Kenya
• North America: Southwest, Northwest Coast, Subarctic

Documentary and Ethnographic Film

The Advent of Bitcoin in Kenya and its Influence on the Kenyan Tech and Startup Scene

Since 2016

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Locating Media“ of the University Siegen, DE

Since 2011

Freelance Author/ Documentary Filmmaker

2012-2014

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Historisches und Völkerkunde-Museum St. Gallen, CH

2008-2011

Post-graduate studies / Dipl. Film Directing of Educative and Scientific Films, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, DE

Sept 2008

M.A. with Distinction in Visual Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.

2007-2008

Scholarship for the M.A.-Program in Visual Anthropology at the University of Kent/ Canterbury, U.K.

2005-2006

Graduate Studies at the Anthropology & American Indian Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

2002-2005

Undergraduate studies/ Socio-Cultural Anthropology (major), Socio-Economic History (minor), Classical Archaeology (minor) at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, DE

2014

Film Presentation and talk „Into America – The Ancestors‘ Land“ at the AIW-Conference, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a. Main, DE

Introduction to Ethnographic Film, and film screening of „Into America – The Ancestors‘ Land“ at the Haus des Dokumentarfilms, Stuttgart, DE

2013

Talk „T.C. Cannon’s Masterful Play with In-Betweenness“ at the Symposium The In-Betweenness of Things, British Museum/ UCL, London, U.K.

Talk „The Liberated Art of Rick Bartow“ at the Conference American Indian Workshop, University of Helsinki, FI

Museum Talks (2012-2013)

„The Inuit Collections of the Finnish polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld“ at the Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum (HVMSG), St. Gallen, CH

„Prestige Objects of the Northeastern Woodlands“ at the HVMSG, CH

„Argillite Carvings of the Northwest Coast Tribes“ at the HVMSG, CH

„The Mescalero Apaches – On the Occasion of the Anniversary of the death of Karl May“ at the HVMSG, CH

2008 and 2010

Member of the Organization Committee of the „10th Göttingen International Ethnographic Filmfestival (GIEFF)“.

2007

Member of the Organization Committee for the Conference „India in Documentary Film“, Freiburger Film Forum, Freiburg.

Documentary

„Mariechen or 100 years of German History“, Documentary Film, 74 min, 2016, Moving Ideas.

„Into America – The Ancestors’ Land“, Documentary Film, 84 min, 2013, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Awards: Best Feature-Length Documentary Film at the Nordamerika Filmfestival, Special Mention and Finalist for the Rigoberta Menchú Price, First Peoples Film Festival Montreal.
Nomination: Best-Feature Length Documentary Film i.e. at the American Indian Filmfestival San Francisco, Biberacher Filmfestpiele, Cine Las Americas, Vision Du Reel.

„Of Conductors and Conducting (Taktgefühl)“, Documentation, 65 min, 2011, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Screenings: In-Edit Music Documentary Market Barcelona, First Steps; SWR-, NDR-, 3-Sat broadcasting

„Border Crossers (Grenzgänger)“, Reportage, 15 min, 2009, Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg.

Other Genres:

„The Art of Julius Seyler – Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet“, 14 min, 2015, Exhibition Film, Museum Fünf Kontinente, München.

„Alte Meister in der Johanniterkirche“, Image Film, 5 min, 2014, Kunsthalle WÜRTH.

„A German-Kenyan Spring“, Ethnographic Film, 30 min, 2008, University of Kent.

„Project Open Art“, Photo and Sound Montage / online exhibition, 8 min, 2007, on behalf of Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg.

„Bartow Selbst“, Ethnographic Film, 36 min, 2006, Native Voices/ University of Washington, Seattle.
Screening: Native Voices Film Festival 2006.