Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

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Research Interests

• Social- and Cultural Anthropology
• Tibetan Buddhism, Religions of the Himalayas
• Ritual Studies
• Memory Studies
• Material and Visual Culture
• Ethnographic Illustration
• Photo, Video and Audio Documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultural practices
• Ethnography, Ethnographic practice

Research regions

Bhutan, Himalayan Regions

Curriculum Vitae (short version)

• since 10/2023 Post-Doc at The University of Sydney & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, CI for ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme) Major Documentation Project grant titled: ‘Documenting Lhokpu and Black Mountain Mönpa languages in Bhutan and their endangered yarn production practices‘
• phil. in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2023), Dissertation Title: Realising Community – The Korphu Attainment, a Communal Tantric Buddhist Festival in Bhutan, Grade: Summa cum Laude
• 10/2021-09/2023, Research Associate, Central Asian Seminar, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 07/2018-07/2019 Associate Lecturer, Department of Anthropology & Department of Political and Social Science, Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan
• Diplom, Costume Design Studies, The University of Arts, Berlin/Germany (2008), Thesis Title: Lama Dance, The Masks and Costumes of ‘Cham Dances, Grade: ‘With distinction’

Current research project

Documenting Lhokpu and Black Mountain Mönpa languages in Bhutan and their endangered yarn production practices, Major Documentation Project funded by ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme)

Publications

Co-Publications and Edited Volumes

2021 Crossing Boundaries: Tibetan Studies Unlimited · Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptáčková, Marion Wettstein und Mareike Wulff (eds.) · Prag: Academia Publishing House.

Articles

2025 (in press) Communicating Visual Literacy through Drawing: Illustrations of National Dress, Buddhist Monastic and Ritual Attire in Bhutan · In: Among Tibetan Materialities; Materials and Material Cultures of Tibet and the Himalayas · peer-reviewed · Eds.: Emma Martin, T. Brox, D. Lange · Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing.

2021 Beneath · In: Crossing Boundaries Tibetan Studies Unlimited, pp.406-416 · Eds.: Diana Lange, Jarmila Ptáčková, Marion Wettstein und Mareike Wulff · Prag: Academia Publishing House.

2019 Putting the Festival Participants back into the Festivals – Rethinking Communal Buddhist ‘Cham Festivals in Bhutan, In: Journal for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu: Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies.

2013 Entstehung des Maskensets Guru Tsengye · In: Die Acht Aspekte des kostbaren Lehrers – Padmasambhava in Kunst und Ritual im Himalaya · Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 75-79, Eds.: Lilla Russell-Smith & Hans-Werner Klohe, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin/Germany.