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Dr. Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino

Research Fellow

Research project: Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE)

Positions

Seit 03/2024
Postdoc in Project CRAFTE ZMO
Seit 09/2021
Speaker (together with Mariam Salehi and Regine Schwab) of the Working Group “Orders of Violence” of the "German Political Science Association Political Science" (DVPW)
01/2021 - 12/2021
Postdoctoral Working Group, "Non-Western Actors and Security/Development Practices in Africa: Analyzing the Multiple Relational Processes Shaping Epistemologies on the Ground"
04/2020 - 03/2024
Assistant Professor and Postdoc at the University Bayreuth
10/2019 - 08/2021
Associated Postdoc Researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
11/2018 - 03/2020
Postdoc Researcher and Coordinator of the Joint Degree Master Programme "Peace and Conflict Studies" (University of Kent and Marburg) at the Philipps University of Marburg
05/2014 - 03/2020
Research Fellow and PhD Student at SFB / TTR 138 "Dynamics of Security" in the Subproject B05, Centre for Conflict Studies Marburg
12/2013 - 04/2014
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (Departments: Middle East and Northern Africa and South-Eastern Europe)

Education

- 10/2018
PhD „Kooperation, Konkurrenz und Konflikt. Die Versicherheitlichungen des kamerunischen Dekolonisierungsprozesses unter französischer UN- Treuhandverwaltung“
08/2011 - 11/2013
Joint Master of Arts “Global Studies – A European Perspective “, at Leipzig University (Germany) and Roskilde University (Denmark)
10/2007 - 08/2011
Bachelor “Politics and Law” at Münster University, Erasmus semester at IEP Lyon (France)

Publications

Monographie

Ketzmerick, M. (2019) Staat, Sicherheit und Gewalt in Kamerun. Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf den Dekolonisierungsprozess unter französischer UN-Treuhandverwaltung. Bielefeld: Transcript.

Edited Volumes

Heise, J., Ketzmerick, M., Lüdert, J. (2022) The United Nations Trusteeships System: Legacies, Continuities, and Change. Routledge Global Institutions Series.

Bonacker, T., Distler, W., Ketzmerick, M. (2017) Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Articles in peer reviewed journals

Ketzmerick, M. (2023) The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: Local Conflict, Global Competition, and Transnational Rebel Governance. In: Small Wars and Insurgencies.

Maria Ketzmerick, Tareq Sydiq (2022): Europa dezentralisieren als Strategie : Was bedeutet „nicht-westlich“ in der und für die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung?. In: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung,

Ketzmerick, M. (2022) “Mit Sicherheit Kritik – wie umgehen mit kritischer Forschung?”. In: ZIB Issue 1.

Bonacker, T., Distler, W., Ketzmerick, M. (2018) “Securitization and Desecuritization of Violence in Trusteeship Statebuilding“. In: Civil Wars, Issue 3.

Chapters in Peer Reviewed Edited Volumes

Ketzmerick, M. (2024 forthcoming) “Politicization and Securitization in the Cameroonian Decolonization? Critical Security Studies and Post/Decolonial Research. In: “Securitization, Politicization, Differentiation: How Security Has Shaped the Configuration of Politics”, Bonacker, T. (Ed.) Nomos Series “Politics of Security”.

Maria Ketzmerick: A Colonial War Under UN Supervision? The Trusteeship System and the Silenced War in Cameroon. In: Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick, Julius Heise (Hrsg.): The United Nations Trusteeship System : Legacies, Continuities, and Change. - London : Routledge, 2022.

Maria Ketzmerick, Jan Lüdert, Julius Heise: Introduction. In: Jan Lüdert, Maria Ketzmerick, Julius Heise (Hrsg.): The United Nations Trusteeship System : Legacies, Continuities, and Change. - London : Routledge, 2022.

Ketzmerick, M., Sydiq, T. (2021) “Thinking Modernity from the Non-West – A Strategy to Diversify the Discipline?”. In: “Non-Western Theories”, Cooke, S. (Ed.) Palgrave Macmillan.

Ketzmerick, M. (2019) “Securitized State Building? – The Camerounian Decolonization in Conflict”. In: “Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization: Beyond State and International System.” Regina Kreide und Andreas Langenohl (Ed.). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Distler, W., Ketzmerick, M. (2017) "The ‘Politics of Protection’ and Elections in Trusteeship and International Administration. The Cases of Cameroon and Kosovo". In: Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Bonacker, T., Ketzmerick, M. (2017) "How Security Dynamics Shaped Trusteeship Statebuilding: The French Administration of Cameroon" . In: Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Teaching

Winter 2023/24:  Seminar (Bachelor): State and Society in Africa
                            Colloquium (Master): Masterthesis

Summer 2022: Seminar (Bachelor and Master): Empirische Sozialforschung im Globalen Süden

Winter 2021/22: Seminar (Master): The Development Security Nexus in Africa
                           Seminar (Bachelor): UN Interventionen für internationalen Frieden und Sicherheit

Summer 2021: Seminar (Bachelor): Empirische Sozialforschung im Globalen Süden
                         Seminar (Bachelor): State and Society in Africa

Winter 2020/21: Seminar (Bachelor): Der Development Security Nexus in Afrika
                           Seminar (Bachelor): Schreibwerkstatt für Examenskandidat*innen
                           Seminar (Master): Regionalism in the Global Order? The Role and Impact of the African Union   

Summer 2020:  Seminar (Bachelor): Empirische Sozialforschung im Globalen Süden
                          Seminar (Bachelor): Interventionen, Statebuilding und afrikanische Regionalorganisationen - Eine Einführung in akademische Debatten
                          Seminar (Master): Qualitative Methods and Interview Research

Winter 2019/20: Seminar (Master): „Die internationalen Beziehungen globaler machen? - Sezessionismus, Staatlichkeit und Souveränität“

Summer 2019: Organization and Chairing of Masterclass with Dr. Mark Laffey and Dr. Sabaratnam „Decolonizing Research in Peace, Conflict, and Security Studies – A perspective for a more Global IR?”
                         Seminar (Master): „Postkoloniale Sicherheitskonstellationen: Fanon und Dynamiken um Sicherheit“
                          Seminar (Master): Postcolonial Perspectives on Security

Winter 2018/19: Seminar (Master): „Contemporary Theories of the Global South”
                           Seminar (with Excursion/Master): „Law, Justices, and Social Conflicts: Lessons from the NSU trial? “

Winter 2017/18:  Seminar (Bachelor): „Einführung in Debatten um Statebuilding“

Summer 2018:    Postcolonial Security Constellations: Fanon and Dynamics of Security

Winter 2016/17:  Reading Course on Postcolonial Theories – Power, Representations and Resistance