Sophie Falschebner

Research fellow and PhD student in the research project "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict".

Research interests:

·         Social movements

·         Conflict transformation

·         Postcolonial theory

·         Memory, identity & conflict

·         Security studies

10/2018 | "Politischer Opfertod im Arabischen Frühling: Protestsuizid und gewaltloses Märtyrertum als Protest am Beispiel Tunesiens and Ägyptens". Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers 21: 1-61. Bayreuth: Institut für Afrikastudien Bayreuth.

Since 04/2020 | Research fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies in the BMBF-funded research project "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict", Philipps-University of Marburg

04/2017-07/2017 | Tutor for "Introduction to Conflict Theories" at the Centre for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg

01/2017-09/2017 | Co-organisation of the student "Conference from Below“ on "Identities In and Around Us. Perceptions. Practices. Constructions", 27-29 October 2017, Marburg

11/2015-12/2015, 03/2016 | Student assistant at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth

09/2015-02/2016 | Student assistant at the Chair of Development Policy and African Policy, University of Bayreuth

02/2013-08/2015 | Student assistant at the Chair of African History, University of Bayreuth

10/2016-03/2022 | Master of Arts "Peace and Conflict Studies", Philipps-University of Marburg

09/2017-12/2017 | Semester abroad, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK

10/2011-09/2016 | Bachelor of Arts "Applied African Studies – Culture and Society in Africa" (major) / "Africa in the World – History and Religions" (minor), University of Bayreuth

10/2017-09/2018 Deutschlandstipendium 2017/18