Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang und Lehre

 

 

Nov. 2017-Present

 

Faculty at the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin (0,66% position)

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Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin (0,33% position)

 

 

Nov. 2015-

Oct. 2017

 

Post Doctoral Fellow for DFG Funded Research Project ‘Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989’ (Modernes Indien in deutschen Archiven, 1706-1989)

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin.

 

(Project in co-operation with the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen Universität und Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin).

 

 

Nov. 2014-

Oct. 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012-2017

 

Post Doctoral Fellow for DFG Funded Research Project ‘Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1989’ (Modernes Indien in deutschen Archiven, 1706-1989)

Anlaufsphase Year 1

50% at the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

 

50% Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

 

External faculty member at the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

 

 

 

July 14, 2014

 

Awarded the academic title of Doctor Philosophiae (Dr. phil.) in Global Studies by the faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig for the doctoral thesis ‘Speaking’ the Nation: (E)merging faces of economic reforms and secularism in the rhetoric of India’s Prime Ministers, 1991-2011. (Grade: magna cum laude: 0,8)

 

 

 

Oct. 2009-  

March 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009-2011

 

PhD Candidate in Global Studies, International PhD Programme   ‘Transnationalisierung und Globalisierung vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart’

Graduate Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Academy Leipzig, University of Leipzig.

Doctoral Studies sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

 

 

Faculty Member at the Global and European Studies Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Leipzig University.

 

 

Jan 2014-

May 2014

 

 

Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India under the DAAD funded ‘A New Passage to India’ Programme.

 

 

 2013

 

Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Leipzig University.

 

 

Oct. 2012-March 2014

 

Visiting Researcher at Department for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

 

 

 2008

 

Research Assistant, Global and European Studies Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Leipzig University.

 

 

2006-08

2006-07

 

2007-08

 

M.A. Erasmus Mundus Global Studies.

Year I M.A. Global Studies at University of Leipzig, Germany.

Year II M.A. Global Studies at University of Vienna, Austria.

(Cumulative Grade 1,4)

 

 

2003-2006

 

BA Political Science (Honours), Delhi University, India