Actual positions
- Retired since August 1, 2025
- Former Professor (80% employment), Head of Research Programme "Governance in Education", Bern University of Teacher Education, Switzerland
- Former Senior Researcher (20% employment), Head of Prison Research Group, Universität Bern, Institut für Strafrecht und Kriminologie, Bern, Switzerland
Websites
Publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-4203
https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/entities/person/e6cb0fa5-193d-4dbf-93a5-7cf8f1ff011c
Projects
https://prisonresearch.ch
https://data.snf.ch/grants/person/40620
Education and academic degree
- Habilitation Venia docendi in Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, 2016
- Post-doc University of Florida, University College of Belize, University of Texas at Austin, Swiss National Science Foundation (#8210-050406, 36 months), 1997-2000
- Dr. phil. Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 1996 (summa cum laude)
- lic. phil.-hist. University of Bern, (Ethnology, Modern History & General Linguistics), 1991
Research interests
In education
- Public school system and society
- Educational leadership
- Education in the prison context
In social anthropology
- Economic anthropology, Peasant studies, Socioeconomic stratification
- Multiethnic processes and Decolonization
- Anthropology of the prison system
In methods
- Quantitative and qualitative methods in social science research
- Evaluation research
Regional interests
Mesoamerica, Lowland Maya Area (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala), Latin America, Switzerland
Language skills
German (native speaker), French, English & Spanish (fluent), Yucatec Maya (working knowledge)
Lehrveranstaltungen im
HS2018
Seminar: Strafen - Einsperren, resozialisieren, wegsperren: Seminar zur Anthropologie des Justizvollzugs
FS2022
Übung: Space-Time-Regimes: Ethnographische Forschung in "totalen” Institutionen
