Hanna Schnieders
is a PhD researcher at the Chair for Political Theory at the University of Erfurt. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Bremen and an M.A. in interdisciplinary Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. Hanna’s research interests lie particularly in postcolonial and feminist theories. Her research project is concerned with […]
Adam Sandor
Adam’s research for the project examines the transnational governance of violence in the Global South with a focus on African security dynamics. The project asks to what extent do Africa-led security initiatives aiming to tackle armed Islamist groups challenge postcolonial security relationships and security practices.
Patricia Pinky Ndlovu
Patricia’s research project examines three overlapping and interconnected issues in the minibus taxi industry in South Africa: conflict, armed violence, and gender relations. Women struggle to operate within this industry which is steeped in and constituted by violent patriarchy. It investigates the multidimensional forms of ‘everyday violence’ that women face in their attempts to navigate […]
Oliver Kessler
is a Professor for International Relations and Director of the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) at the University of Erfurt. He holds a PhD from LMU München. He also serves as the current editor of the European Journal of International Relations and convenes the module on Economic Development at the Merian Center ICAS:MP.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Sabelo’s project examines how epistemology frames ontology. His project investigates how imperial/colonial epistemes have reproduced themselves in the form of what Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak termed ‘postcolonial reason’ and how this in turn informed a very problematic postcolonial political modernity characterized by conflicts and violence related to postcolonial state-making, postcolonial nation-building and democratization.
Anna Lena Goll
is a PhD researcher at the Department for International Relations at the University of Erfurt. Anna holds an LLM in Law and Politics of International Security from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an MPhil in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town.
Maria Ketzmerick
Maria’s research focuses on topics within post/decolonial security research, Central Africa (especially Cameroon) in a regional, transnational, and global context, as well as approaches of (sociological) peace and conflict research.
Jana Hönke
Jana’s current research examines how political geographies become transformed through South-South relations by studying the contested social and security arrangements around multinational companies and large-scale infrastructure projects in Africa.
Ulrich Franke
is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences at the University of Erfurt. He studied political science, sociology and economics at Frankfurt’s Goethe University (1997-2003), received a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (2008) and the venia legendi for political science from the University of Bremen (2017). Inspired by the […]
Joël Glasman
Joël’s research focuses on the humanitarian government of the world, from a historical angle. Joël examines the apparatus of ideas, forms of expertise, and devices that shape contemporary humanitarianism.
