is a lecturer at the University of Potsdam and former doctoral fellow of the RTG minor cosmopolitanisms. Her PhD project “Shadow archives” traces the colonial legacies of contemporary border and surveillance technologies from the colonies to the European refugee crisis. She was a visiting student at NYU’s Graduate Center for Social and Cultural Analysis with a scholarship granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a visiting scholar at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney.