CV

Academic Biography

since 2020

Tallinn University, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies

2018-2019

University of Colorado Boulder, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Asian Studies, Henry Luce Foundation project "China Made".

2015–2018

Postdoc ERC Starting Grant Project Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.

2014

Visiting Fellow, Competence Network Crossroads Asia, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich.

2011-2015

Ph.D. Student at University of Aberdeen, Department of Anthropology. Thesis: Across the Khunjerab Pass: A Rhizomatic Ethnography Along the Karakoram Highway, between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan

2012-2015

Editor at The South Asianist (http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk)

2011-2012

M.Res in Social Anthropology (with distinction), University of Aberdeen.

2007-2010

MA in Religious Studies/Religions of China (summa cum laude), University of Padova and Cà Foscari University of Venice.

Awards and Grants

2014

Crossroads Asia Research Fellowship (4 months).

2011

Research Project Award under "Religion and Politics in the Contemporary World", The College of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate School, University of Aberdeen (36 months).