About
I’m a scholar of foreign policy and diplomacy, with a particular interest in knowledge production; gender, race, and class; and feminist foreign policy. My research is motivated by the question of feminist transformation towards a more just and equal world.
My main empirical focus is on German diplomacy and the German Federal Foreign Office. I am one of the very few ethnographers to have done participant observation in a Ministry of Foreign Affairs, providing me with unique, in-depth insight into diplomatic practice.
I’m currently a Co-Principal Investigator for a research project called KNOWPRO, which explores knowledge production in German and European peace and security policy. The project combines the expertise of ethnographers and practice theorists at the Universities of Erfurt and Bremen, and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space with 2.51 million Euros (04/2022-03/2028). I’m based at the Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.
I’m also a member of the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) at the University of Erfurt and the GenDip network for research on gender and diplomacy, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Outside of academia, I contribute to the Programme for Gender and International Politics at the Polis180 think tank for Foreign and European Policy. As part of my work and as an academic expert, I have provided expertise on feminist foreign policy and the Women, Peace and Security agenda to the German government.
I’m an experienced public speaker and teacher, offering talks, workshops, seminars, and lectures on my research topics. I have worked with both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
In March 2025, I completed my PhD at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. In 2024, I was elected as an Associate of King’s College London.
In addition to my PhD, I hold a first-class honours B.A. in International Relations from the University of Erfurt, Germany, and an M.A. in Conflict, Security and Development (Distinction) from King’s College London, UK.
Prior to my PhD, I was Personal Advisor to the State Secretary of a German State Chancellery.
I’m currently based in Berlin.
