01-07/2018

Senior Fellow at the Morphomata Center of Advanced Studies, University of Cologne

Topic of research project: Contemporary Portraits of Migration. Life-Imaging in Documentary Photobooks 

10-12/2017

Senior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK)/University of Art and Design Linz, Vienna

Topic of research project: Translating Migrants. Hetero- and Self-Translation in Social Documentary Photography

03-06/2014

Visiting Fellow at the Neubauer Collegium of Culture and Society, University of Chicago, USA

Topic of research project: Framing Global Art History: A Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Approach

07-08/2013

Visiting Fellow of the Visiting Program “Cities, Imaginaries, Publics” at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra

Topic of research project: Asian Design of the Spectacular. On Urban Imaginaries and the Artistic Creation of Museumscapes in East Asian Mega-Cities

05-06/2007

Research Fellow at the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna, Austria

Topic of research project: De-/Kadrierungen des Blicks. Skopische Chiasmen zwischen Europa und Ostasien

07/2006

Conference participation and research grant for field studies in South Korea by the National Centre of Competence and Research (NCCR) »Iconic Criticism«/Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2006-2008

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Topic of research project: Ikonoskripturen

2005

DFG travel grant for the conference “Elective Affinities. Word and Image Interactions” at the University of Philadelphia, USA

2002-2004

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship granted by the German Science Foundation (DFG)

Topic of research project: Transkulturelle Imaginalogie. Bildkulturtransfer zwischen dem Westen und Ostasien

1998-2002

DAAD grant for a visiting professorship at Seoul National University, South Korea