I am a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute since 2021.

My research and teaching is concerned with the cultural history of the social. Currently, I am the principal investigator of a five-year research project on the history of ethnopsychology. Together with a team, I study debates on the nature of the human psyche – particularly of people from the Global South – during the “long” moment of decolonization.

My second book Geld an der Grenze: Souveränität und Wertmaßstäbe im Zeitalter des Imperialismus 1871–1923, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2024 is published in April 2024.

My first monograph (published in 2016 in German and 2021 in an English translation) examined everyday indebtedness in nineteenth-century liberal capitalism.

Prior to joining the Graduate Institute, I taught at the University of Zurich (PhD in 2014) and at the University of Basel, where I received my habilitation in 2022. I held scholarships at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Vienna, Duke University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Michigan.

I serve on the editorial boards of the Journals Historische Anthropologie and Traverse.