Biruk Terrefe
Biruk’s research lies at the intersection of Political Science, Development Studies, and Geography with a focus on how infrastructure projects and urban spaces relate to the politics of statecraft in Africa. His current research agenda investigates the relationship between infrastructure and state-building, particularly how large energy, transport, and logistics systems have shaped (and are shaped […]
Nessim Znaien
is Professor of Colonial/Postcolonial Maghreb at Phillips-Universität Marburg, attached to the History Department and the Centre for the Near and Middle East (CNMS). He studied history in Lyon and Paris, and Arabic, Italian and Turkish at the University of Aix-Marseille.
Martine Toppenberg Dahl
is a student assistant helping to develop the Virtual Encyclopaedia in the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in International Relations at Malmö University in Sweden.
Siddharth Tripathi
is a Senior Research Fellow at University of Erfurt where he leads the BMBF funded project on Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, University of Duisburg Essen and has also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Willy Brandt School of Public […]
Franzisca Zanker
is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg where she heads the research cluster „Patterns of (Forced) Migration“. Her current research interests focus on political processes surrounding refugee and migration governance with her most recent project looking at refugee protection in South Africa and Uganda.
Darja Wolfmeier
Darja is a PhD researcher, examining how postcolonial hierarchies are produced by humanitarian organizations working in situations of peace and conflict. Postcolonial continuities and racism within the humanitarian aid sector have been criticized for some time now.
Tareq Sydiq
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies and Coordinator of the Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict Network. He is the Principal Investigator of the AFPRO project on protest movements during and after insurgencies. His research is centered around questions of state-society relationships particularly within authoritarian contexts, reframing and reinterpreting state power […]
Benedikt Stuchtey
is a full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies since 2013. He studied at the universities of Münster, Freiburg and Trinity College Dublin, took his exams and PhD in Freiburg and his Habilitation (second academic qualification) in Konstanz. He was deputy director of the German Historical Institute […]
Alena Strohmaier
currently heads the MediaHub at the Department for Media Studies of the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). She was project leader of the interdisciplinary research project ’But I’m not filming, I’m just doing a bit of video’. Cinematic appropriation processes of protest videos from the Middle East and North Africa since 2009 (funded by the German Federal Ministry […]
Laura Reisser
Laura Reisser is a student assistant at the Center for Conflict Studies, currently pursuing her M. A. in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg. She obtained her B.A. in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Freiburg with a focus on gender, inequalities, and social movements. She is especially interested in […]
