Feldforschung
ongoing (since 2018)
multi-sited field research in different European localities on statelessness and expert activism
2015-2020
Myanmar (Yangon). Field research on ethno-religious minorities (fifteen months)
2015
Kyrgyzstan. Follow-up field research (two weeks)
2012-2013
Myanmar (Yangon). Field research on land and property regimes of non-Buddhist religious communities (six months)
2011
Germany (Saxony): Field research on insight meditation (one week)
2010
England (Wales). Field research on insight meditation (two weeks)
2010
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek and Talas). Field research on the constitutional referendum and ethnonationalism; revisiting my field site (three weeks)
2009
Myanmar (Yangon, Inle-Lake, Mandalay, Bagan). Exploratory field trip (two weeks)
2009
India (Kolkata). Library-based research on interrelations between India and Myanmar; establishing contacts to local research institutions (one month)
2008
Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek and Talas). Follow-up field research for doctoral dissertation (one month)
2005-2006
Doctoral dissertation research on legal pluralism and the ordering of everyday life in two villages in northern Kyrgyzstan (fifteen months)
2003
Field research for Master's thesis on state judges' perceptions of 'transformation' during the constitutional reform in Kyrgyzstan (six months)