Research Agenda

How do feelings of national belonging arise in encounters between different people, objects, and places? What strategies do people, particularly those affected by oppression, develop in the context of digital experiences of violence? What role do bodies play in the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of national borders? With a focus on the analysis of current socio-political challenges such as the rise of the global right and the associated normalization of nationalisms, the omnipresence of gender-based (digital) violence, and the ongoing relevance of national borders, my work develops feminist geographic perspectives to understand the persistence of social injustices and spatial power asymmetries. My research focuses on feminist geographic perspectives on nationalism and borders, feminist geographies of social media, digital geographies of mundane violence, and the development of feminist affectual and digital methodologies.

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