Research Agenda

How do feelings of national belonging arise in encounters between different people, objects and places? What roles do bodies play for the production, maintenance and dissolution of national borders? How do communities of sexual belonging develop through social media spaces? My research shows how sites such as the body and globally circulating digital technologies shape feelings and experiences of belonging and membership and are key to the manifestation of borders. Using the intersectional study of nationalism, social and digital geographies and social media research, my work develops spatial perspectives to understand the persistence of social injustices.

Interests

Feminist political and digital geographies; geographies of the body; feminist methodologies

Selected Research Projects

2022 – 2026: Feminist Social Media Research Methodologies (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada (with Prof. Roberta Hawkins))

2021 – 2023: A Digital Geography of Marginalized Sexualities in Kyrgyzstan (Swiss National Science Foundation)

2018: Clad in hope: affective geographies of the bridal dress (Swiss National Science Foundation)

Courses

2025 EX2: Regionalexkursion Murnau

2025 VO1: Grundzüge der Humangeographie 2: Politische Geographien

2024 VU3: Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden: Feministische Forschungsmethod(ologi)en

2024 VO2: Grundzüge der Humangeographie 3: Feministische Geographien

2024 PS2: Humangeographie: Proseminar: Digitale Geographien des global/intimate

2024 VO1: Grundzüge der Humangeographie 2: Politische Geographien

2022 VO1: Grundzüge der Humangeographie 4: Feministische Geographien