TEACHING EXPERIENCE

August 2017 - February 2018:       (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Lecturer
Module “Contemporary Feminist Theory”
Institute for Social Sciences - State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

• Preparation and delivery of lectures in the area of political feminist thought for 30 students, including undergraduates and graduates, journalists, activists and professionals from the education, health and social service sectors.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

May 2021 - today:       (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Researcher
Laboratory for Violence Analysis (LAV)
State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

• Design and implementation of research with regards to the diffusion of firearms and gender-based violence in Brazil (with Doriam Borges and Maira Covre-Sussai).

June 2017 - May 2021:       (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Researcher
Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG)
Institute for Social Sciences - State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

• Design and implementation of research with regards to the high school feminist (secundarista) movement in Brazil. Methodological conception of the study and conducting of field work at the Pedro II School in Rio de Janeiro.

March 2015 - June 2016:      (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Research Assistant
Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM)
BRICS Policy Center
Institute of International Relations - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

PUBLICATIONS

• PhD dissertation

  • “Women and the War on Drugs: The Militarization of Female Marginality as a Mechanism of Social Control in Democratic Brazil.” In progress.

   

  “Critique of Violence, Critique of Pure Reason. Walter Benjamin’s and Immanuel Kant’s critical enterprises in comparison.” Master’s thesis. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Year of defense: 2016.

   

  Edited volumes

  • Hinz, Kristina and Zubek, Izadora (eds.) Feminist insights: resilience and resistance in times of COVID-19. Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2020. Available at: https://www.rosalux.de/en/corona/feminist-insights-resilience-andresistance-in-times-of-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR1KIsLRXLtcLFtizyq4hX99BNZwzRG6hBPYifuvegMhkdEPZD4bPVyg.

• Research articles

  • Hinz, Kristina and Borges, Doriam. “Inside the Israel Complex: The Rise of Narco-Pentecostalism in Rio de Janeiro”. Forthcoming book chapter, Manchester University Press.
  • Hinz, Kristina and Vinuto, Juliana. “Police soldiers, elite squads, and militia: militarized masculinities and public security discourses in Rio de January (1995–2018).” International Feminist Journal of Politics 24.1 (2022): 63-86, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2021.2021099.
  • Hinz, Kristina, Vinuto, Juliana and Coutinho, Aline. “In the name of God and rifles: the rise of neo-Pentecostal and securitarian forces in Brazil (2003-2019).” Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals 126 (2021): 185-213. DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2020.126.3.185.
  • Hinz, Kristina, Herz, Monica and Siman Gomes, Maira. “Ripe for resolution? International mediation and its community.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 27.3 (2021): 388-409. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02703007.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “O amor é um evento. Considerações sobre amor e política no pensamento de Hannah Arendt.”

  [Love is an Event. Considerations on Love and Politics in Hannah Arendt’s Work].” Revista Direito e Práxis 2, no. 8 (2017): 1683-1693. DOI: 10.12957/dep.2017.28772.

   

  Opinion articles

  • Hinz, Kristina. “Julian Assange is free. Are we?” The Left Berlin. 30 June 2024. Submitted: 26 June 2024. https://www.theleftberlin.com/denouncing-war-crimes-is-a-duty/
  • Hinz, Kristina. “How the international arms trade kills women in Brazil.” openDemocracy, 15 July 2022. Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/brazil-international-arms-trade-killing-women-femicide/
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Brazil’s policing is a war of men. Civilians are caught in the crossfire.” openDemocracy, 13 February. 2022. Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/brazil-police-a-war-of-men-civilians-are- caught-in-the-crossfire.
  • Hinz, Kristina; Borges, Doriam; Coutinho,Aline and Cury Andries, Thiago. “The rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militia”. openDemocracy, 6 May 2021. Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/rise-narco-militia-pentecostal-brazil-en.
  • Hinz, Kristina; Coutinho, Aline; Grześkiewicz, Hanna; Flisak, Alicja; Barbar, Hadir und Ahmed, Ghadeer. “Unholy alliance: The global crusade against reproductive justice”. openDemocracy, 17 February 2021. Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/es/no-santa-alianza-cruzada-mundial-contra-justicia-reproductiva.
  • Hinz, Kristina and Zubek, Izadora. “Why the Covid-19 pandemic needs an intersectional feminist approach”. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2020. Available at: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/42062/gendered-impacts-of-covid-19-inthe-global-south.
  • Hinz, Kristina and Coutinho, Aline Beatriz. “Back to the past: Brazil’s backlash of reproductive justice in its domestic and foreign policy”. Disrupted 2.1 (March 2020), p. 12-17.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Why Jair Bolsonaro’s new security policy endangers the lives of Black and marginalized women.” OpenDemocracy, 8 August 2019. Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/novapol%C3%ADtica-de-seguran%C3%A7a-de-bolsonaro-p%C3%B5e-em-risco-mulheres-negras-e-marginalizadasen/.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Wer hat Angst vor den Feministinnen? Die Hexenjagd auf Frauenbewegungen und Gender-Studies unter der Bolsonaro-Regierung. [Who is afraid of a feminist? The witch hunt on women’s movements and gender studies under the Bolsonaro government in Brazil.“ Brasilicum, April 2019.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “The attack on Brazilian democracy is an attack on women: Religious fundamentalism, sexual politics, and feminist resistance after Dilma Rousseff.” The Left Berlin Internationals. 15 June 2018. Available at:

  https://theleftberlin.wordpress.com/current-debates/the-attack-on-brazilian-democracy-is-an-attack-on-women/.

  • Hinz, Kristina. “Não vamos parar de cobrar justiça. Pesquisadora alemã relembra interview with Marielle Franco e fala do susto e da indignação com a notícia da execução da vereadora [We will not stop to demand justice. German researcher recalls interview with Marielle Franco and talks about her shock and indignation at the news of the councilwoman's execution” Projeto #Colabora, 18 May 2018. Available at: https://projetocolabora.com.br/genero/justica-por-marielle-franco.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Ein schöner Schein. Legale Möglichkeiten des Schwangerschaftsabbruches und reale Hindernisse in Brasilien [Nothing but a sham. Legal possibilities and real obstacles for abortion in Brazil.” Brasilicum 245 (2017). ISSN 2199-7594.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Besetzen für Bildung. In Brasilien trotzen Schüler der konservativen Regierung [Occupying for

  Education. Brazilian high school students defy conservative government.” Lateinamerika Nachrichten 511 (2017). ISSN 0174-6342.

  Translations

  • Arendt, Hannah. “Amor e casamento [Love and marriage.]” Translated to Brazilian Portuguese by Kristina Hinz. Revista Direito e Práxis 2.8 (2017): 1682-1683. DOI: 10.12957/dep.2017.28772.
  • Maihofer,Andrea. “O gênero como construção social. Uma consideração intermediária [Gender as a social construction. An intermediate consideration.]” Translated to Brazilian Portuguese by Kristina Hinz. Revista Direito e Práxis 7.15 (2016): 874-888. DOI: 10.12957/dep.2016.25362.

  Guest lectures

  • Hinz, Kristina. (2024). "It is forbidden to forbid". From censorship to the Brazilian penal state, militarization, and mass incarceration". Empowerment for Peace. Vienna. 
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Gender-based police violence in Brazil.” Hear My Voice Women’s Network”. 01 December 2022.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “De la ‘guerra de los hombres’ a la narcomilicia neopentecostal: perspectivas sobre el género, la violencia policial y el crimen organizado en Río de Janeiro [from 'the war of men' to narco-Pentecostalism: perspectives on gender, police violence and organized crime in Rio de January”]. Invited speaker at the seminar “Criminal violence in the Americas”. Programa de Política de Drogas. CIDE. Mexico City, Mexico (remote). 08 October 2022.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Gender and firearms in Brazil: considerations on police, criminal and domestic violence.” Invited guest speaker in the panel “Women and weapons - violence vs. public safety”, as part of the discussion circle “Argentina: State, Ethics and Society (coord.: Dep. Margarita Stolzbizer). Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES), Buenos Aires, Argentina (remote). 27 September 2022.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “A war of men: why is Rio de January's public security policy guided by a militarized masculinity?" Programa de Seguridad Ciudadana. Universidad Iberoamericanca. Mexico City, Mexico (remote). 22 March 2022. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFSBDQFSMRI
  • Hinz, Kristina. “In the name of God and rifles. neo-Pentecostal churches and pro-armaments groups in Brazil.” Invited guest speaker, Via Marginal. Berlin, 31 January 2021. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNCe4TCHUAM&feature=youtu.be.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Feminist insights. Resilience and resistance in times of COVID-19.” With Anielle Franco, Kristina Kaghdo and Radhika Menon. Mediation and organization. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Berlin, 15 December 2020. [remote]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPB6gEnXUtE.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “The conspiracy against choice. Why abortion rights are under attack in Poland, Brazil, and the USA.” With Taylor Storey, Debora Thomé and Alicja Flisak. Mediação. The Left International Berlin. Berlin, 07. Dezember 2020. [remote]. Available at: https://www.theleftberlin.com/post/video-the-conspiracy-against-choice.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Why the criminalization of abortion is a form of state violence.” Invited guest speaker. Gender Working group ANPUH Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: 21 August 2020 [remote].
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Gendered insights on the “war on corona”: the multiple faces of gender-based law enforcement violence in a global crisis.” Invited guest speaker. Think Fast, University College of London [remote]. London, 01 May 2020.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Soldiers, elite police squads, and military intervention: performances of protection and the masculinization of Brazilian state authorities during the “war on drugs” in Rio de January (1988-2018).” Invited guest speaker. Laboratory for the Study of Differences and Inequalities (LEDDES), Rio de Janeiro State University. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2019.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Wer hat Angst vor den Feministinnen? Intersektionale Perspektiven auf die Wahl von Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilien 2018 [Who is afraid of a feminist. Intersectional perspectives on the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.” Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft. Freie Universität Berlin. 01 July 2019.
  • Hinz, Kristina. „Anti-feminism, anti-leftism, WhatsApp and the moralization of politics: disinformation strategies in the Brazilian presidential election 2018”. Invited guest speaker. Institute for Social Sciences, seminar The Politics of (Dis)information, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, 24 June 2019.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Who is afraid of a feminist? Understanding the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil from an intersectional gender perspective.” Invited guest speaker. Panel Brazil after the elections: Return to military dictatorship? Kassel University, Kassel, 5 December 2018.
  • Hinz, Kristina. „#Not Him: new authoritarianism and feminist resistance in Brazil.” Invited guest speaker. Panel Feminist mobilizations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia, organized by Lateinamerika Forum Berlin, Berlin, 18 October 2018.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Nothing but a sham: reproductive rights, legal possibilities and real obstacles for abortion in Brazil.” Invited guest speaker. Panel Reproductive Rights in Latin America, organized by The Left Berlin, Berlin, 24 September 2018.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “The crisis in democracy and feminist resistance in Brazil after Dilma Rousseff.” Keynote speech of the seminar „Internationalist Feminism – Feminist Internationalism”. Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover. 6 July 2018.

  Conference presentations

  • Hinz, Kristina. “The invisible wounds of the war on drugs. Forms and manifestations of police violence against women in Brazil.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). 09 May 2022. San Francisco, USA (remote).
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Soldiers, elite police squads, and military intervention: performances of protection and the masculinization of Brazilian state authorities during the “war on drugs” in Rio de Janeiro (1988-2018)”. Second IFJP Polycentric Conference Gender Violence and Feminist Resistance in Latin America, October 2019, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo. Brazil.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “Thugs, warriors and warlords: Representations of masculinity in the official discourses of drug containment and combat in the city of Rio de January (1988-2018)”. Conference Feminist Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Studies. February 2019, Koblenz University. Koblenz.
  • Hinz, Kristina. “New authoritarianism, sexual politics and feminist resistance in Brazil.” Conference Anti-democratic Conservatives: Enemies of an open and inclusive society. November 2018, University of Hamburg. Hamburg.

  Interviews and media comments

  • BBC. “Narcopentecostalismo’: traficantes evangélicos usam religião na briga por territórios no Rio [NarcoPentecostalism: Evangelical drug traffickers use religion in the fight for territory in Rio.] Interview with Letícia Mori. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/articles/cj5ej64934mo.amp.
  • TV UNAM. “Militarización y feminismos [Militarization and feminisms].” TV discussion. 10 December 2022. Available at:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhKfMEbiAa4&fbclid=IwAR1eYFxXAfupQwJgAhLRGMkc2jj8or8smAX6M7Ln NTadFZ3VrVY-SzKXV60.

  • Insight Crime. “How religious militias and warrior mentalities mix in Rio de January.” Interview with Alessandro Ford. 5 September 2022. Available at: https://insightcrime.org/news/religious-militias-warrior-masculinities-mix-rio-deJanuary/.
  • TAB UOL. “Por que as armas de fogo e o desejo de praticar tiro estão em alta no mundo [Why firearms and the desire to practice shooting are on the rise in the world]”. Interview with Henrique Santiago. TAB UOL, 24 October 2020. Available at: https://www.bol.uol.com.br/entretenimento/2020/10/24/o-que-explica-o-desejo-crescente-do- Brazileiro-por-armas-de-fogo.htm
  • Radio Dreyecksland. “Courageous Women: Reflection on the Challenges of Brazilian Women in Hard Times”. Interview. 15 March 2017. Available at: https://mais1cafe.org/2017/03/15/de-mutige-frauen-reflexion-uber-die- herausforderungen-Brazilianischer-frauen-in-schweren-zeiten/
  • Reuters. “Proteste gegen Gruppenvergewaltigung in Brasilien: ‘Ein strukturelles und kulturelles Problem’” [Protest against gang rape in Brazil: violence against women is a structural and cultural problem in Brazil.”. Interview. 31 May 2016.