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Vita

June 2009 – present
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg

February 2012 – present
Executive Director (Geschäftsführende Direktorin), Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps University Marburg

2022 – present
Deputy Spokesperson on the DFG Research Group “Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft” (MeDiMi)

2022-2026
Spokesperson of the BMBF Competence Network “Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict

2016 – 2024
Deputy Chairperson (Stellvertretende Vorstandsvorsitzende), German Fondation for Peace Research (Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung)

2018 – 2020
Member of the initiating team and co-spokesperson, Marburg Center for Digital Culture and Infrastructure (MCDCI), Philipps University Marburg

2015 – 2016
Senior Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. Research project: Transitional Justice as a Travelling Norm. On the Influence of Local Concepts on Global Ideas

2008 – 2009
Project Leader and Principal Investigator, DFG-funded project The Politics of Building Peace: An Analysis of Transitional Justice, Reconciliation Initiatives and Unification Policies in War-torn Societies, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University Berlin

2008 – 2008
Substitute Professor of International Relations (Vertretungsprofessur), Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University Berlin

2007 – 2008
Guest Researcher, SFB Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, Free University Berlin

2003 – 2006
Project Leader and Principal Investigator, DSF-funded research project Between Past and Future. An Assessment of the Transition from Conflict to Peace in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

2002 – 2002
Research Fellow, Conflict Security and Development Group (CSDG), International Policy Institute, King’s College London

2002
Occasional Lecturer, London School of Economics and Birkbeck College, London

1997 – 2002
Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of International Relations
Published as Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda. Remembering after Violence (Palgrave)

1995 – 1996
Master of Arts in International Relations, London Centre of International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury. Degree awarded with distinction

1991 – 1994
Undergraduate Studies in Politics, Media Studies, and Public Law, University of Mannheim, Germany

Awards

2021
Philipps University Marburg Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision

1999
Benjamin Lippincott Award for Political Theory, London School of Economics

1998
Benjamin Lippincott Award for Political Theory, London School of Economics