ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Whitman College (Fall 2022 - Present)
Assistant Professor of Politics
Lafayette College (Spring 2020 - Spring 2021)
Visiting Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology and of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
EDUCATION
2021: Ph.D. in Sociology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Summa Cum Laude, JLU Dissertation Award and 2nd finalist in the ADLAF dissertation awards, Germany
Dissertation Committee: Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (First Supervisor), Marisol de la Cadena (Second Supervisor)
2015: M.A in Political Theory, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2012: B.A. in Political Science (Minor in International Law), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
TEACHING
“Senior Seminar: Knowledge, Power, Politics” (co-taught with Shampa Bisawas, Aaron Bobrow-Strain and Özge Serin), Undergraduate Seminar in the Politics Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA, Fall Term 2022.
“Indigenous Feminisms,” Undergraduate Seminar in the Politics Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla WA, Fall Term 2022.
"Introduction to Sociology," Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, Easton PA, Fall Term 2020 and Spring Term 2021.
“Gender and Environmentalism,” Undergraduate Seminar in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Lafayette College, Easton PA, Spring and Fall Term 2020.
“Culture and Environment,” Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, Easton PA, Spring Term 2020.
“Feminism, Activism, Extractivism,” Undergraduate Seminar in the Sociology Department, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Winter Term 2017/2018.
“Popular Feminism(s) in Latin America,” Undergraduate Seminar in the Sociology Department, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Winter Term 2016/2017.
VISITING POSITIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fall and Spring 2021-2022: Visitor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
2016-2020: Member and Stipend Holder at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen
August 2018–January 2019: Doctoral Research Stipend Holder at DAAD, Germany
Summer 2018: Research Affiliate of the Area “Social and Global Studies” at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito
Spring 2018: Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis
Spring 2017: Research Affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley
2010-2015: Member and Stipend Holder at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Germany
Summer 2011: Fellow and Stipend Holder at the Fulbright American Studies Program, Free University of Berlin