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 (Associate Researcher)

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.
André Brodocz

is a full Professor for Political Theory and Vice Director of the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) at the University of Erfurt. He holds a PhD and a Habilitation from the TU Dresden. Since 2010 he is an Editor of the Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie (German Journal for Political Theory).
Andrea Behrends (Associate Researcher)

Humanitarian aid has been criticized for its close connection to military interventions or long-distance governance, particularly in global south contexts. With a focus on humanitarian practice, our project looks at actors, histories, and current situations of humanitarian aid, in relation to internal procedures and external critiques to decolonize aid.