Dr. des. Julia von Sigsfeld
Latin American Institute
Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila)
Research Associate
Academic Trajectory
| 12/2020 – 04/2021 | Affiliated Researcher, MECILA (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America). |
| 01/2020 |
Visiting Scholar at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Area of Global Studies, supervised by Prof. Pablo Ospina. Quito, Ecuador |
| 2016-2019 |
Doctoral Fellow of the International Research Training Group 'Minor Cosmopolitanisms' funded by the German Research Council (DFG), University of Potsdam. |
| 08-09/2018 |
Visiting Scholar at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar, Area of Latin American Cultural Studies, supervised by Prof. Catherine Walsh. Quito, Ecuador |
Education
| 2016-2020 |
PhD in Sociology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin Berlin/Potsdam, Germany |
| 2014-2015 |
Master of Science in Gender, Development and Globalisation, London School of Economics and Political Science. London, United Kingdom |
| 2010-2013 |
Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences and Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
PhD Dissertation titled "Ancestral Knowledges and Development in Contemporary Ecuador. Epistemic Struggles and Situated Cosmopolitanisms."
2020 - Online Working Paper "Ancestral Knowledges and the Ecuadorian Knowledge Society." Research Network MECILA - Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America.