I am a Junior Professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. My research and teaching are situated at the intersection of political, philosophical, and visual anthropology. Through combining critical phenomenology with multi-sited ethnography, I explore how people navigate their social and moral lives in contexts marked by conflict, uncertainty, and global inequality. I am particularly interested in the link between intimacy, violence, and politics, as well as in questions on gender, ethics, crime and criminalisation, punishment, and media more broadly. I investigate what international discourses and policies 'do' and how people make sense of them as they navigate multiple political regimes. My regional focus is West Africa (mainly Burkina Faso) and Western Europe (Switzerland, Sweden, and France). I am also trained in ethnographic filmmaking and experiment with photography in my research and teaching.