Postcolonial Hierarchies

Sophie Falschebner

is a PhD researcher, focusing on the impact of colonialism on contemporary conflict dynamics and in/security in Cyprus. Before joining the project, she studied the M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Philipps-University of Marburg and the B.A. Applied African Studies at the University of Bayreuth. Sophie´s research interests include activism and social movements, […]

Selbi Durdiyeva

is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies, at Philipps University Marburg. She obtained her PhD at Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, Northern Ireland.

Susanne Buckley-Zistel

is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg. Prior that this she held positions at the Frei University Berlin, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and King’s College London.

Thorsten Bonacker

is a Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Center for Conflict Studies and the Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and was a guest lecturer at Universities in Innsbruck and Almaty.

Fabricio Rodríguez

is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. He holds a PhD in Political Science with a focus on International Relations from the University of Freiburg.

Andreas Mehler

is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. He has previously served as Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg (2002 – 2015). 

Alke Jenss

is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Cluster ‚Contested Governance‘ at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. Her current research focuses on the production of security and insecurity through transnational infrastructure masterplans, leading a project on infrastructural connections between North and Central America, and North Africa and Europe, and multi-scalar governance from a […]

Viviana García Pinzón

is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg and an Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Viviana completed a PhD. in Political Science with a focus on peace and conflict studies at the Philipps University of Marburg (summa cum […]

Kristine Dünkelsbühler

is a student assistant for the research and encyclopaedia components of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Applied Political Science, a French-German double diploma, at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in Applied Political Science at the Institut d’Études Politiques […]

Manuela Boatcă

is a Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has a degree in English and German languages and literatures and a PhD in sociology.