Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Science - History of Education

High School Diploma (Abitur) in Berlin

Studies in German Studies at the University of Potsdam and the Free University Berlin; History and Society of South Asia at Humboldt University Berlin and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

M.A. in History and Society of South Asia; M.A. thesis titled “Identitätssuche im Spannungsfeld der Ost/West-Dichotomie: Indische Mitglieder der Theosophischen Gesellschaft Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts im kolonialen Indien“ (search for identity in the the context of the East/West dichotomy: Indian members of the Theosophical Society at the end of the 19^th century in colonial India)

Research Fellow in the DFG Research Division955 “Akteure der kulturellen Globalisierung, 1860-1930“ at the University of  Bremen, Germany; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) research trips to Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Mumbai, Bangalore (India); Colombo (Sri Lanka); London (UK); Los Angeles, Ojai (USA); Malmö (Sweden)

Lecturer at the Seminar for South Asian Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Dr. phil.; dissertation title: “Globalizing ‚Sacred Knowledge’: South Asians and the Theosophical Society (1879-1930)“ in the Ph.D.-programme “Intercultural Humanities” at the University of Bremen (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Fischer-Tiné (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

Research Assistant at the Department of History of Education, Institute of Education Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
project: Development, Negotiation, Transfer and Implementation of Norms for the Organisation of ‘Mixed’ Classroom Instruction in Comparative Perspective (Spain, Ireland, India, ca. 1840-1900);  focus on British India; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Caruso; funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)