Dr. Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Email: Maria.Ketzmerick(at)zmo.de
Forschungsprojekt:
Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE) The Global South and the Global Cold War in Berlin – the Divided City as a Locale for African-Asian-Solidarities
Positions
Education
Publications
Ketzmerick, M. (2019) Staat, Sicherheit und Gewalt in Kamerun. Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf den Dekolonisierungsprozess unter französischer UN-Treuhandverwaltung. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Bunskoek, R; Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M. (2025) Practising Pluriversalism in Africa. Africa Spectrum, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397251352869.
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.
Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M.; Heise, J. (2025) Temporalities of Independence and Closure: Violence in the UN-Trusteeships of Togoland and Cameroon. In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2025.2526212
Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M. (2025). Postcolonial Embarrassment at the United Nations: Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict in the UN-Arria Formula Meeting”. Cooperation and Conflict, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367251326049
Ketzmerick-Calandrino, M. (2024) Colonial Dis/Continuities in Cameroon and the Postcolonial Dilemma in the Archive. In: Global Studies Quarterly. Volume 4, Issue 3 July, 2024.Ketzmerick, M. (2024) Colonial conflict under international rule? The securitization of the Cameroonian decolonisation. In Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth, Vol.7 No. 1 2024.
Ketzmerick, M. (2024) Colonial conflict under international rule? The securitization of the Cameroonian decolonisation. In Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth, Vol.7 No. 1 2024.
Ketzmerick, M. (2023) The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: Local Conflict, Global Competition, and Transnational Rebel Governance. In: Small Wars and Insurgencies.
Ketzmerick, M. and Sydiq T.(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.
Ketzmerick, M. (2025) “The Politicization of Security and Post/Decolonial Research: Contestations of Security Visions in the Cameroonian Decolonization Process. In: “Securitization, Politicization, Differentiation: How Security Has Shaped the Configuration of Politics”, Bonacker, T. (Ed.) Nomos Series “Politics of Security”
Ketzmerick, M. (2024) “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.
Ketzmerick-Calandrino (2024): From the Archives in Cameroon to the Stasi-Archiv in Berlin, Germany? Using Research Skills from African Archives to understand the German Cold War. 29.09.2024. https://www.craftingentanglements.com/archivesincameroontostasiarchiv
Ketzmerick-Calandrino (2024): “Security. Speaking with Fanon?”. Virtual Encyclopaedia – Rewriting Peace and Conflict. 08.10.2024. https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/security-speaking-with-fanon/.
Ketzmerick, Maria / Salehi, Mariam / Schwab, Regine (2022): Transnationale Gewaltordnungen und Konflikte. Workshop AK Gewaltordnungen DVPW, Universität Bayreuth, 3.-4. März 2022, in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 40:2, 54–55.
Gurol, J.; Ketzmerick, M. (2021) „Nachhaltige Karrierewege? Zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft“, In: DVPW Blog. Verfügbar unter: https://www.dvpw.de/blog/nachhaltige-karrierewege-zur-vereinbarkeit-von-familie-und-beruf-in-der-deutschen-politikwissenschaft-ein-beitrag-von-julia-gurol-und-maria-ketzmerick
Ketzmerick, M. (2020) „Konfliktlinien in Kamerun“. In: Internationale Politik, Ausgabe 2 (März/April), 2020. Verfügbar unter: https://internationalepolitik.de/de/konfliktlinien-kamerun
Ketzmerick, M. (2019) „Postkoloniale Außenpolitik: Wie sich Deutschland in Kamerun engagieren sollte“. Peacelab Blog. Verfügbar unter: https://peacelab.blog/2019/05/postkoloniale-aussenpolitik-wie-sichdeutschland-in-kamerun-engagieren-sollte
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