David Niebauer, M.A.
Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Research Unit Peace and Conflict Studies
Office hours
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Academic Positions
- Since 2020: Research Associate at the Research Unit Peace and Conflict Studies, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2020: Research Associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Research Project: „Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dark Side of (Berlin) Sciences: The Dual Use-Problem“
- 2017-2020: PhD Fellow at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, PhD Program: „Boundary Formations in Migration Societies“
- 2014-2015: Student Assistant at the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Research Project: „The Greeks, the Germans and the Crisis“
- 2012-2013: Student Assistant at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Research Project: „Politicization of Europe“
Education
- Since 2017: PhD Candiate at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Working Title: „Contested Orders of Space: Political Struggles over the Common European Asylum System after the Crisis of the European Border Regime 2015", Supervision: Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess, Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki
- 2013-2016: Studies of Political Science (M.A.) at Freie Universität Berlin
- 2010-2013: Studies of Political Science (B.A.) and Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Research Interests
- Critical Migration and Border Studies
- Critical Security Studies
- Conflict Theory and Violence Research
- European Studies
- Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Theory
- Qualitative Research, especially Discourse Analysis
- Knowledge Production, Research Ethics and Dual Use Problem