My doctoral project at the University of Cologne focuses on the Barotse Floodplain in western Zambia. Based on ethnographic research, I explore how various actors (re)make wetlands in pursuit of divergent futures. I aim to understand how change and fluidity across scales - from the temporalities of the wetland itself to shifting sociopolitical structures and the global climate crisis - intersect with land-based livelihoods and conservation practice. 

This work is situated within the DFG Collaborative Research Center Future Rural Africa as part of the project "Future Conservation." I am also affiliated with the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities research hub, the Global South Studies Center, and the University of Zambia.

I hold a previous MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2025) from the University of Cologne and a BA in Anthropology and Germanic Studies (2022) from the University of Chicago. My research during this period explored how white Namibians engage with conservation and the environment to maneuver post-colonial politics.