Education

• 2018 Dr. phil. (Geschichte, Universität Wien)
• 2011 MA (Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center)
• 2006 BFA (Fine Art, Alfred University New York State College of Ceramics)

• Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

• History and sociology of knowledge and science
• Migration studies
• Material culture studies
• Museum anthropology and collections research
• History of learning

Third-Party-Funded Projects

• Book project: With Objects at Hand: Developing Early Anthropology, A Transnational History (ÖAW PostDOC-Track Stipendium) 2/2020-7/2020
• Projekt (in Vorbereitung): Beringia: Material Evidence, Praxis and the Shape of Science (FWF Schrödinger Stipendium 2020-2023)

Selected Publications

• (Forthcoming) “Friends in Deed: Allies in the Interwar Struggle for ‘German’ Science and Art,” in Academies and World War I: The Aftermath [special issue] Acta Historical Leopoldina, Robert Fox and Wolfgang U. Eckart (eds.).
• (Forthcoming) “Capital Collections, Complex Systems: Vienna, Berlin, and Ethnographic Specimen Exchange in Trans-National fin desiècle Scientific Networks,” in Science in the Metropolis. Mitchell Ash (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
• “An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution, 1887,” in: Museum Anthropology 41(1) (2018): 30-45.