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Dr. Philipp Wolfesberger

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1. Center for InterAmerican Studies

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Managing Director of the Centre for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS)

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+49 521 106-3241  
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Sprechstunde Lehre: Di 15 bis 16 Uhr (nach Voranmeldung)
Sprechstunde CIAS u. Verbindungsbüro: Di 16 bis 17 Uhr (nach Voranmeldung)

 
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2. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen

Akademischer Geschäftsführer CIAS

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3. Center for InterAmerican Studies / Administration

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5. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Kommissionen und Ausschüsse / Kommission für Forschung und wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs

6. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Kommissionen / PhD Commission

Curriculum Vitae

I am a political scientist working at the intersection of political sociology, political theory, and international politics, with a transregional focus on Latin America. My research examines political violence, forms of regulation, and the temporalities of solidarity.

Since 2021, I have been Research Associate and Academic Managing Director at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, where I am completing my habilitation on hegemony and violence. I am also co-organizer of the Long Term Group “Dimensions of Regulation” (2026–2028) at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) and an associated researcher in the Volkswagen Foundation–funded project “Turning Land into Capital.”

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna in 2015 (summa cum laude), with a dissertation on mechanisms of violence in the context of Mexico’s drug war. I subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on indigenous autonomy and resistance movements, and have held visiting appointments and conducted research in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Germany, and the United States.

Current research topics

  • Fellowship (March/April 2026) in the research hub "Fault Lines of Democracy: Violence - Sovereignty - Territoriality" of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS) on the topic "Excessive State Power and State Killings in Democracies"
  • Statehood and state transformation in Latin America
  • Organised crime and violence
  • Masculinities
  • Autonomous governance, solidarity and (radical) democracy
  • Decolonial theories

Memberships and Functions

Board of Directors Centre for InterAmerican Studies
Editorial Board Kipu-Verlag
Chairman of the Board of the Association for the Promotion of InterAmerican Studies e.V.
Commission for Doctoral Studies, Department of History
Commission for Research and Young Researchers, Department of History
Member research focus area "Shifting Worlds: InterAmerican (Dis)Entanglements"
Member research focus area "Contestations of Gender and Democracy"
German Society for Sociology (DGS)
Austrian Society for Political Science (ÖGPW)
German Latin American Studies Association (ADLAF)

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