Qualitative Social Research
Intersectional Gender Studies
Critical Migration Studies
Affect Studies & Queer Studies
Postcolonial Theory, Chicanx/Latinx Studies & Decolonial Feminism
Diversity & Inclusion
Critical Whiteness
Citizenship & Political Theory
PhD student in the program 'Organization & Culture' (DOK) at the University of St.Gallen (since 2022).
Master's degree in Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Basel (summa cum laude, 2020).
Bachelor's degree in Social Work with a focus in Community Development at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Social Work (2014).
Assistant / PhD Candidate at the Institute for Organizational Psychology, University of St.Gallen (March 2023 - October 2024)
Assistant at the Department Gender & Diversity, University of St.Gallen (since 2022)
Expert Inclusion and Disability, Disability Office, University of Zurich (2022-2023)
Integration Officer (2017-2021)
Children's and Young People's Officer & Team Leader Youth Development (2013-2021)
Affective Politics of ‘Immigrant Integration’ (Doctoral research, since 2022)
How are gender and race reproduced and negotiated in affective narratives and practices of ‘immigrant integration’? This question lies at the core of my doctoral research. Starting from the assumption that ‘integration’ as a discourse produces racialized and gendered subjectivities and boundaries between an ‘integrated society’ and a ‘non-integrated other’, I seek to understand how affects and emotions are intertwined with the (re)production and contestation of such demarcations and hierarchies. Thus, I analyse affects and emotions within narratives and practices of ‘immigrant integration’ in German-speaking Switzerland. On the one hand, the research involves interactive (group-) interviews with people with migration biographies who are involved in volunteer networks. On the other hand, I follow these volunteers in their activities in ethnographic fieldwork when they support refugees and newcomers. Using dialogical methods and a (self)critical analysis of my own affects as a white researcher, I critically engage with the un/doing of hierarchies within research processes and beyond. This research is situated at the intersection of critical migration studies, decolonial theory, gender studies, and studies on affective citizenship. It contributes to a better understanding of the entanglement of affects with processes of racialization and gendering in relation to hegemonic discourses of integration, community building, and citizenship.
Conference Lecture at WU Wien Gender & Diversity Conference (March 2024): "Undoing whiteness in organizations by white bodies? From affective dissonance to anti-racist praxis"
Conference Lecture at the Conference of the Swiss Association for Gender Studies (September 2023): "Beyond 'Othering': Embodied (Self-)criticism of a Hegemonic Emotional Regime"
Presentation of an article in the 'RosaRot - Zeitschrift für Feminismus und Geschlechterfragen" (September 2022): "Trauer, Verletzbarkeit, Verantwortung"
Coordinator of the Research Network Affects, Feelings & Emotions of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies (since 2023)