I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and part of the research project “Inherited Futures. Objects, Time, Knowledge.” My primary interest is in how material objects (such as archival letters and photographs) preserve and transport knowledges across space and time. I explore how their meanings transform through circulation processes and through different forms of intervention.

I love reading books, writing and editing books as well as thinking about books as objects and forms of knowledge production. I am the author of Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art (transcript, 2025), co-editor of Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives (Michaelis Galleries, 2023) and of Sites of Contestation. Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021). I am also a member of the initiative Freiburg-Postkolonial, a research and educative project which promotes public debates about the colonial legacies of Freiburg and beyond.

My full CV is available on request.