Prof. Dr. Sophia Hoffmann
Affiliierte

Positions
Degree/ Education
Publications
2016: Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
2021 "Circulation, not Cooperation: Towards a new understanding of intelligence agencies as transnationally constituted knowledge providers", Intelligence and National Security, online 1st Juli 2021.
2021 (under review) “Comparing the international economic practices of Iraqi and West German intelligence agencies”, Globalizations.
2020 "Arab students and the Stasi: Agents and objects of intelligence", Security Dialogue, Online First, 31st March 2020.
2017: “Humanitarian security in Jordan’s Azraq Camp”, Security Dialogue, 48 (2), 97-112.
2017: „Die politische Gegen-Topographie internationaler Migration“. Berliner Debatte Initial 2017 (4).
2017: „There is no alternative: Der Aufstieg der humanitären Hilfe in der internationalen Politik“, 5(1) Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Heft 1 (mit Kai Koddenbrock)
2016: “The National Body in Syria and Israel: Comparing Processes of Unity and Fragmentation”, Middle East Critique, Volume 25 (3), 229-247. (mit Katherine Natanel)
2016: “International Humanitarian Agencies and Iraqi Migration in pre-conflict Syria”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Volume 48 (2) pp. 339-355.
2015: Article (peer reviewed) “Wen schützen Flüchtlingslager? Care and Control im Jordanischen Lager Azraq“. Peripherie, Nr. 138/9
2012: “The Humanitarian Regime of Sovereignty: INGOs and Iraqi Migration to Syria.” Refuge 28.1, Spring 2012.
2021 (forthcoming) “The Iraqi migrant experience in Syria after 2003 or: The emergence of international humanitarianism in the Levant” in Knudsen, Are and Berg, Kjersti, eds, SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East. New York: Berghahn Books.
2020 "The possibilities and limits of ethnography: two examples from Syria and Jordan". In: Schlichte, Klaus and Biecker, Sarah, eds.,The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.
2020 "Humanitarian Corridor"; "Sovereignty"; "Impartiality"; "International Cooperation". In: De Lauri, Antonio, ed., Humanitarianism: Keywords. Leiden: Brill.
2016. "A Sovereign for All: The Management of Refugees as Nation-State Politics". In: De Lauri, Antonio, ed., The Politics of Humanitarianism. London: IB Tauris.
2019: “Why is there no IR scholarship on intelligence agencies? Some ideas for a new approach”, ZMO Working Paper Series.
2016: Turkish immigration politics and the Syrian refugee crisis. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. (with Sahizer Samuk)
2010: Research report “Sovereignty in the Lives of Iraqis in Damascus”, CBRL Bulletin 5.1.
2007: Iraqi Refugees in the Syrian Arab Republic: A Field-Based Snapshot, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, DC: Brookings Institution. (with al-Khalidi, A. and Tanner, Victor).
2018. Book review: Lisa Blaydes, State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). 376 pp. $35.00 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-4008-9032-3. In: Journal of Perpetrator Research 2.1..
2015. Book review: Al-Ali N. and Al-Najjar, D. 2012. We are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War. Syracuse: SUP. Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 47 (2).
2012. Book review: Kern, K. 2011. Imperial Citizen: Marriage and Citizenship in the Ottoman Frontier Provinces of Iraq. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, Review of Middle Eastern Studies, 46 (2).
Academic Conferences and Workshops
2018: ECPR Annual Conference, Hamburg; Workshop, ZMO, Berlin.
2017: Annual Conference, German IR Association, Bremen.
2016: Conference, Forschungskolleg „The Transformative Power of Europe, FU Berlin; European Workshops in International Studies, Tübingen; Annual Conference “Arbeitskreis Friedens- und Konfliktforschung”, Villigst.
2015: Workshop, University of Bremen: Workshop, University of Hamburg, Workshop, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst; Congress, German Association of Political Science (DVPW), Duisburg.
2010: World Congress of Middle East Studies, Barcelona.
2011: Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC; British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference, Exeter, UK.
Outreach / Consultancy / Key Notes
Media Articles
Teaching Activities
Grants and Prizes
Memberships
- German Association of Political Science (DVPW)
- Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
- Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
- Syria Studies Association
- International Studies Association (ISA)
- British International Studies Association (BISA)
Languages
- German: native speaker
- English: native speaker (bilingual)
- French: fluent
- Spanish: fluent
- Arabic: upper intermediate