I am a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich. My research interests include (more-than-) human environmental entanglements, identity politics, migration and social mobility in both rural and urban settings. I pay special attention to the interplay of political forces and local responses, and the ways these interactions shape individuals’ lives. My conceptual approaches are informed by my regional expertise in the Americas and in Oceania, including transpacific connections, and I am engaged in a range of mostly collaborative research projects. Currently, I lead the Reinhart Koselleck-Project on Planetary Healing, investigating novel efforts to foster social transformation and decolonization as responses to climate change.
I am also PI in the Collaborative Research Center 1369 “Cultures of Vigilance”, and the International Doctorate Program “Re-Thinking Environment”. I am editorial board member of American Ethnologist and of Sociologus – A Journal for Social Anthropology. At LMU, I am Dean of Research of the Faculty for the Study of Culture, and I coordinate the LMU Latin America Network. I am a first-generation academic.
For more information, please visit her LMU webpage and read her publications