Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Teaching + Supervision

I gladly supervise BA and MA theses across the fields of my research. Please contact me via email with an expression of interest and a project sketch as well as a timeline for the proposed thesis and potential co-supervisors. Find below a list of my teaching and supervision. 

 

Teaching

 

Summer 2025

Worlding: Theorien und Praktiken der Weltproduktion (BA, IfEE)

Eine Einführung in die Anthropologie der Kunst (BA, IfEE)

 

Summer 2024

The multi-layered city. Exploring Heritage Politics in Berlin (MA, IfEE, with Margareta von Oswald)

Introduction to Visual Anthropology (MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan)

Introduction to the Anthropology of Art (MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan)

Introduction to Curatorial Studies (MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan)
 

Winter 2023/2024

Museumswelten und Weltordnungen. Anthropologische Annäherungen an kuratorische Praktiken (BA, IfEE)

Summer 2023

Awkward Archives. Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum (BA, IfEE, with Margareta von Oswald)

Introduction to Visual Anthropology (MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan)

Introduction to the Anthropology of Art (MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan)

 

Spring 2023

Introduction to Field-based Methods (BA, UCLA, with Alex Ungprateeb Flynn)

Curating Cultures (MA, UCLA, with Alex Ungprateeb Flynn)

 

Winter 2022/2023 

Das Minore. Macht, Dominanz und Identitätspolitik (MA, IfEE)

 

Summer 2022

Weltkunst – Kunst der Welt. Anthropologie, Kunst und Weltkonstruktion (BA, IfEE)

 

Winter 2021/2022

Unsettled Objects. Troubling Colonialism and Institutional Reckoning (MA, IfEE / The New School, with Jonathan Bach and Margareta von Oswald)

 

Summer 2021

Einführung in die Feldforschung. Methoden für ungewisse Zeiten (MA, Saarland University)

 

Summer 2019

Anthropology, Art, and Colonialism: Introductory Convergences and Problems (MA, IfEE)

 

Summer 2018

Anthropological Transformations (Institutskolloquium, IfEE, with Sharon Macdonald and Tahani Nadim)

 

Summer 2017

Modes of Relating (Institutskolloquium, IfEE, with Sharon Macdonald and Martina Klausner)

 

Spring 2016

Art, Images, and New Media (BA, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge)

 

Supervision

 

PhD supervision and examination

2024- "Pedagogies of Care. The Institute of Shared Knowledge", Andris Brinkmanis (Nuova Academia di Belle Arti Faculty Scholarship for PhD in Artistic Practice), Department of Visual Arts and Curatorial Practice, Milan. Principal Supervisor together with Prof Mick Wilson (Gothenburg)
 
2024 "Curating Expertise. An Anthropological Approach", Gabrielle Barkess-Kerr (Durham University), Department of Anthropology. External examiner together with Prof Yulia Egorova (Durham). Passed without corrections. 
 
2020-2025 "Les professions intellectuelles et créatrices dans les conditions de l’exil : enquête sur les trajectoires, réseaux et expériences d’intellectuels et artistes en exil/réfugiés aujourd’hui en Europe", Elsie Cohen (co-tutelle between EHESS Paris and Saarland University). Member of the committee and examination board for Elsie Cohen with Prof Gisèle Sapiro, Prof Liora Israël, and Prof Markus Messling.
 
2020-2021 "A partir de Śākuntala y Ajantā. Recepción y visiones de India en la obra de Ernst Ludwig Kirchner desde una perspectiva transcultural”, Sol Izquierdo de la Viña (University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense Madrid) in the Study Group for Transculturality, Mestizaje and Mondialisation in the Arts and Contemporary Epoch). External committee member for the examination, with Prof Gerhard Wolf. Awarded Summa cum laude.

 

MA supervision and examination
 
2025 “Translating the Museum: Curatorial Practices in Bilingual Territories”, Angela Bosin (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, NABA), MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Milan. Principal Supervisor and examiner. 

 

2025 “Haunts of Curatorial Research”, Elif Nur Gözaydin (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, NABA), MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Milan. Principal Supervisor and examiner. 

 

2025 “From Pleasure Gardens to Amusement Parks: A Curatorial Study Tracing the Social Role of Public Space”, Magdalena Gill (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, NABA), MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, Milan. Principal Supervisor and examiner. 

 
2024-2025 "Das Lenz-Haus in Berlin - Ethnografie einer Verflechtungsgeschichte", Ys Maria Lamichhane (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Second supervisor and examiner with Prof Manuela Bojadzijev. 
 
2022-2023 "Last Words. Ausstellungen in deutschen Museen zu den Benin-Bronzen im Kontext der Restitution", Antonia Schmidt (Fachrichtung Romanistik, Universität des Saarlandes). Second supervisor and examiner with Prof Markus Messling. 
 
2020-2021 "Von Porn-Performer*innen zu Intimfluencer*innen: Eine Ethnografie einer neuen digitalen Arbeitskultur", Katharina Weiss (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Second supervisor and examiner with Prof Christoph Barreither. 
 
2020-2021 "Kuratieren als anti-rassistische Praxis", Diana Mammana (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Second supervisor and examiner. 
 
2019-2020 "The refugees are coming now!’ The negotiation of subjectivation between subjection and resistance. An ethnographic study of a theatre collective in Berlin", Nuriani Rahm Frederique Hamdan (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Institute of Social Science, Free University Berlin). Second supervisor and examiner. 
 

2017 "Konstitution kreativer Räume in 'artist’s paradise' Berlin", Anna Perelazova (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Second examiner with Prof Jörg Niewöhner.