In 2010, I started my undergraduate studies in Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Heidelberg (Germany).There I engaged in the Oceania Working Group and increased my intersts in this region. In 2013 I participated in a field school to Tubetube, Papua New Guinea which was supervised by Dr. Katharina Schneider and Dr. Almut Schneider.
In 2014, my passion for the Pacific led me to the University of Bergen, where I enroled the two-year M.Phil. programme "Anthropology of Development". I became a member of the Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group. Supervised by Dr. Annelin Erikson I conducted a six-months fieldwork in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila, where I aimed to grasp how the notion of Gender and Gender Based Violence has been politicized and used in mainstream discourses dominated by agents of Development Cooperation and how this notion differed from the everyday life experiences of Ni-Vanuatu women. My fieldwork was supported and connected to the ECOPAS project "Understanding Gender Inequality Actions in the Pacific:Ethnographic Case-studies and Policy Options" and I had the honor to co-author the chapter "Vanuatu" in the ECOPAS report with Dr. Sue Farran.
I successfully graduated from the University in Bergen in June 2016.

Although I consider myself to be curious about almost anything, my main areas of interestes are:
- Melanesian societies, esp. Vanuatu and PNG
- Gender
- Development Studies
- Discourse analysis
- The notion of Power
- Globalisation

Anthropology, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Anthropology of Ontology, Development Studies, Gender Based Violence, Gender, Globalization, Indigenous Knowledge, Kastom, Pacific Studies, Social Change, Women's Associations, Power and Resistance

Gender studies

Melanesia

21st century

Bislama, Tok Pisin