She is also a qualified documentary filmmaker. From 2013 to 2014 she was a lecturer at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at Manchester University and from 2008-2013 a member of scientific staff at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 2009 she gained her doctorate with a thesis on nationalism and the remembrance of violence in post-war Croatia. She is currently researching ecstatic religious cults and the veneration of saints in the European Mediterranean region, as well as trance and dramatization in ethnographic documentary films. She has held research posts and fellowships at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University (2012/2013), the Institute of Advanced Studies in Bologna (2011/2012) and UCL University College London (2006/2007).