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 of scientific, indigenous, and vernacular knowledge
• History of biogeography
• Classification, the concept of „Race,“ and hierarchies of value
• Epistemologies of material evidence
• History of migration
• Museum anthropology, collecting, and collections
• Methods in material culture

Third-Party-Funded Projects

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

Selected Publications

• “Of Scientists and Specimens: Early Anthropology Networks in and
  between Nations and the Natural and Human Sciences,” in Handbook on the History of the Human Sciences, David McCallum (ed.) Singapore: Palgrave, 2022, 1651-1678
• “Friends in Deed: Allied 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.) 78
  (2021): 139-160.
• “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., 2020, 152-171.
• “An Emissary from Berlin: Franz Boas and the Smithsonian Institution,
  1887,” in: Museum Anthropology 41(1) (2018): 30-45.