People

Maija Susarina

Academic Coordinator for joint research projects

Positions

2020 - Present
Academic Coordinator at ZMO
2018 - 2020
Project Auditor at Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin
2014 - 2018
Student Assistant in the Project “Progress: Ideas, Agents, Symbols” within “Muslim Worlds – World of Islam? Conceptions, Practices, and Crises of the Global”

Education

2018
M.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin, Germany
2012
B.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Publication

with Wiebke Bebermeier, Nuwan Abeywardana and Brigitta Schütt, 2023: Domestizierung des Wassers: Bewirtschaftung der Wasserressourcen in der Trockenzone Sri Lankas als lebendiges kulturelles Erbe. In: WIRES Water , 10 ( 4 ), e1642. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1642

 

Talks

30.10.2015
“Peruvian Amazonian Indigenous Peoples as Refugees in their Own Country: The Urban Condition in Lima” The Urban Studies Seminar, ZMO, Berlin

Awards

2016
Research Grant of the VolkswagenStiftung and DAAD: Tanks as Ancient Measurement of Integrated Watershed Managements in the Dryzone of Sri Lanka

Membership

  • Katastrophennetzwerk (KatNet)

Languages

  • German: native speaker
  • Russian: native speaker
  • English: full fluency (C2)
  • Spanish: advanced proficiency (C1)
  • French: elementary level (A2)
  • Latvian: elementary level (A1)