Short Vita

Since 2018 Research Associate at the seminar for religious studies and intercultural theology at the faculty of theology of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Since 2021 Equal Opportunities Commissioner at the faculty of theology

2013-2017 Project consultant “Parishes – Places of learning about sustainability and future viability” at the church development service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony

2004-2011 Studies of Protestant theology, sociology, psychology in Dresden, Halle and Heidelberg, degree Magistra Artium

2009-2010 Teacher of Bible studies, global studies and English at the Manow Lutheran Junior Seminary in the Konde Diocese, Tanzania

2008-2010 Studies of Protestant religious education and political science for the teaching profession at grammar schools (intermediate examination)

2006-2011 Scholarship holder at Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst (Protestant Scholarship Foundation Villigst)

2004 Abitur (A-levels) in Görlitz

Married, three children

PhD Project

Gender, theology and religion in fair trade

Publications

Mission­ – Religion – Geschlecht. Ein Ausblick (Mission – Religion – Gender. An outlook), in: Klaus Hock/Claudia Jahnel/Klaus-Dieter Kaiser (Hg.), Mission in Literatur und Film. Band 1 Heuristische Annährungen: Kontexte – Akteur:innen – Ambivalenzen, Leipzig 2023, p. 223 -239.

Review:

Judith Bachmann, Hexerei in Nigeria zwischen Christentum, Islam und traditionellen Praktiken. Globale Verflechtungen und lokale Positionierungen bei den Yoruba (Witchcraft in Nigeria between Christianity, Islam and traditional practices. Global entanglements and local positioning among the Yoruba), Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021, ZMiss 49/2 (2023), 235-238.

Forthcoming

Die ‚Viktigene‘ im kulturell-topografischen Abseits – Zur Globalität von Geschlecht und Religion im Fairen Handel (The ‚Viktigene‘ in the cultural-topographical offside – On the globality of gender and religion in fair trade) in: Giovanni Maltese (Hg.), Globale Religionsgeschichte und Geschlecht (envisaged for LIT in 2023).

Presentations/Lectures

Power & Fair Trade. Gender as a colonial category of knowledge in theologies & churches, Young researcher panel of the German society of missiology, 10/2020

“Poor, black and female”: Women Empowerment & Fair Trade, online lecture series “Gender and queer studies as an epistemological challenge for religious studies” of the Unversities of Hamburg and Heidelberg, 01/2022

Review of the conference “Mission in film and literature” of the division of intercultural theology and religious studies of the scientific society for theology, Neuendettelsau, 03/2022

Fair trade and gender. On re-mapping colonial topographies in church-spaces, International doctoral and habilitation forum for women’s and gender studies in theology and religious studies, University of Graz, 04/2022

[Theologie] MACHT Geschlecht (double meaning in German: “[Theology] POWER Gender”, “[Theology] MAKES Gender”) – How fair trade brings Canaan to Europe, presentation as part of the lecture series „[Theologie] MACHT Geschlecht“ initiated by the Equal Opportunities Team of the faculty of theology at the University of Halle, 10/2022

Fields of interest in research

Intersectional Gender studies

Global religious history

Development cooperation & theologies

Theologies from East and South African contexts

Courses

Winter semester 2023/24:

Exercises: Postcolonial Global History or Planetary Age? Identity or ‚Lies that bind’? Reading Chakrabarty and Appiah in English

Summer semester 2023:

Introductory seminar: Not a 'real' double subject? Introduction to religious studies and intercultural theology

Exercises: Witchcraft in Nigeria – And questions on 'cultural appropriation'

Winter semester 2022/23:

Exercises: [*] MACHT Geschlecht (double meaning in German: “[*] POWER Gender”, “[*] MAKES Gender”)

Summer semester 2022:

Introductory seminar: Only in doubles? Introduction to religious studies and intercultural theology

Winter semester 2021/22:

Introductory seminar: Introduction to religious studies and intercultural theology as a double…- What? A double subject of “unexplained” matters

Exercises: "The Bible in the Bush": Musa W. Dube – Reading a postcolonial-feminist New Testament scholar from Botswana

Summer semester 2021:

Introductory seminar: Christianity and culture – Introduction to intercultural theology

Exercises: Knowledge on religion – Displaced findings in religious studies and intercultural theology

Winter semester 2020/21:

Exercises: "Mann redet, Frau nackig" - Vom Genderstern zur Queeren G*tt. (“Man talks, woman naked” – From the Gender star to a queer [female] G*d.) Various forays through theological gender studies

Summer semester 2020:

Introductory seminar: Christianity and culture – Introduction to intercultural theology

Exercises: From dependency to post-development: development theories and what theology has to do with them

Summer semester 2019 und Winter semester 2019/20: parental leave

Winter semester 2018/19:

Introductory seminar: Christianity and culture – Introduction to intercultural theology

Exercises: From the periphery to the centre? Perspectives of postcolonial theologies

Summer semester 2018:

Exercises: Theological propaedeutics

Projects and activities

Co-initiator of the lecture series: "[Theologie] MACHT Geschlecht" (double meaning in German: “[Theology] POWER Gender”, “[Theology] MAKES Gender”) in the winter semester 2022/23:

Considering various approaches in gender studies, there has been a discussion about certain processes reflecting the powerful reproduction of gender within the different subjects of theology. https://www.theologie.uni-halle.de/gleichstellung/veranstaltungshinweise/

Co-initiator of the study day “Facing anti-feminism in church and society” in course of summer semester 2022:

The discussion covered how to deal with the manifestation of particular roles for women as well as their alleged scientific and theological justifications. https://www.frauenarbeit-ekm.de/anti-feminismus-begegnen-studientag-ekm-gleichstellungsbeirat/   

For further projects within the equality work at the faculty of theology, please visit: https://www.theologie.uni-halle.de/gleichstellung/