Education

2024

Doctor of Philosophy, Center for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton 

2018 

MPhil Political Theory, University of Oxford, St.Catherine’s College

Academic Career

Since 2026

Research Assistant at CRC 1171 Affective Societies, in the philosophical project D09 "Changing Repertoires of Emotion III: "Dynamics of Unfeeling”, Freie Universität Berlin

2025-2026

Instructor, Theorie der Politik, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2024-2025  

Research assistant at Professur Politische Theorie und Philosophie, Technische Universität München

2024

Instructor, Freie Universität Berlin European Studies Program (FU-Best)

2023

Visiting scholar at Peter Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia 

2022-2023

Instructor, Otto-Suhr Institut, Freie Universität Berlin

2019-2020  

Research assistant, RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms, Universität Potsdam 

2019

Instructor, Interdisciplinary studies, Universität Witten/Herdecke

2017 

Associate Researcher, University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Leverhulme Project, “Political Remittances: Understanding the Political Impacts of Migration”

2012-2016

Student assistant at various institutions e.g. Universität Konstanz, Hertie School of Governance, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Scholarships 

Techne Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), PhD Fellowship und International Placement Fellowship

Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Stipendium für Studium, Promotionsstipendium

WiSe 2025/2026

Theoretische Grundlagen (HU Berlin)

WiSe 2024/2025

Politische Theorien des Eigentums (TU München)

Grundlagen der Politischen Philosophie und Theorie (2 Seminare, TU München) 

SoSe 2024 & WiSe 2024

Bounded Sex: Gender, Sexuality, Identity in and beyond European borders (FU-Best)

WiSe 2022/2023

Colonial (Un)making of Gender and Sexuality (FU Berlin)

SoSe 2019

If we stop, the world stops: Theory and Practice of Transnational Women’s Strikes  (Universität Witten/Herdecke)

Research interests: 

• Political theory ans social philosophy, international political theory and social theory
• Theories of the state and property
• Theories of affect and emotion
• Theories of social reproduction, family, care, and labor 
• Feminist philosophy, theories of gender and sexuality, including queer and trans studies, decolonial, black, and indigenous theory 
• (Queer-) feminist and (anti-)colonial history and intellectual history, particularly German colonial history and the history of feminist movements 

Essays and chapters

 „Unschuld Schützen, Gewalt Bekämpfen? Kindheit, Schutzalter und Selbstbesitz“, RphZ Rechtsphilosophie Zeitschrift für Grundlagen des Rechts, 2024, 10:4, 461-472.

“Colonial Intimacies: Constellations of Property and Kinship in German Colonial (After)Lives”, Women, Gender & Research, 2022, 33:1, 15-32.

„Check your privilege check! Eine solidarische Kritik des Privilegiendiskurses”, (w. S.-L. Effert.), zeitschrift diskurs, 2022, 7, 40-67.

“Responsibility for Vulnerability: Towards a Political Account of Responsibility”, Philosophy Today 2020, 63:4, 577-597.

“Precarious Borders: Frames of Migration and the Potentiality of Affect”, Raisons Politiques, 2019, 76:4, 121-143.

„Striking Exposure: Organisation und Solidarität im transnationalen Frauen*streik”, (w. J. Pietzko) in Exposure, Christine Hentschel, Susanne Krasmann (eds), transcript 2020, 59- 76.

„Soziale Reproduktion, Geschlecht und Rassismus” (w. Eleonora Roldán Mendívil) in Die Diversität der Ausbeutung: Zur Kritik des herrschenden Antirassismus (Eleonora Roldán Mendívil / Bafta Sarbo, eds.), Dietz Verlag 2022, 64 - 82;

 “Social Reproduction, Gender and Racism“, in The Diversity of Exploitation: On the Critique of dominant Anti-racism (Mendívil/Sarbo, eds; Daniele Puccio, trans.), Brill 2024, 36-50. and in paperback with Haymarket 2025.

Im Erscheinen/Forthcoming: "Die Kolonialität des eigenen Geschlechts?” Sammelband Dekoloniale Perspektiven und Gender (Robel Abay, Vildan Aytekin, Denise Bergold-Caldwell, Dina Bolokan, Muriel González Athenas, Hrsgb), Berlin: Springer 2026.

Other Publications

“Introduction: In Flames, Not Yet Born?”, (w. F. Kilpatrick), Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics, 2021: 2, 1-10.

“Unsettling Our Relationship to Things and People: A Conversation with Brenna Bhandar and Eva von Redecker”, (w. H, Lechley), Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics, 2021: 2, 166-179.

“Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson”, (w. C. Griffin), Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics, 2021: 2, 140-165.

“Exposures. Reflections on a curatorial strategy. An Interview with Antonia Majaca and Ivana Bago”, (with J. Boettger) in Exposure, Christine Hentschel and Susanne Krasmann (eds.), transcript 2020, 77-94.

“A Historical Perspective on the Political Limits of “My Body, My Choice”, Oxford Political Review Blog, August 2022, https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/a-historical-perspective-on-the- political-limits-of-my-body-my-choice/. 

“Eigentum und Gewalt”, Zeitschrift LuXemburg: Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke Praxis, February 2022, https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/eigentum-und-gewalt/.

“Erased in Translation: A Conversation with Dr. Vanessa Thompson and Dr. Sara Salem” (w.A. Yael, K. Samson, co-hosts). Podcast Minor Constellations, 07/2020. Available at: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosmopolitanisms/activities/lecture-series- 2020/podcast-series.