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Dr. Philipp Wolfesberger
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1. Center for InterAmerican Studies
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Research and Teaching
Managing Director of the Centre for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS)
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- +49 521 106-3241
- Office
- Gebäude X B2-206 − Locations Map
- Availability
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Sprechstunde Lehre: Di 15 bis 16 Uhr (nach Voranmeldung)
Sprechstunde CIAS u. Verbindungsbüro: Di 16 bis 17 Uhr (nach Voranmeldung)
2. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History / Iberische und lateinamerikanische Geschichte / wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen
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Akademischer Geschäftsführer CIAS
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4. BiSEd-Mitglieder / BiSEd-Mitglieder der Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie
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
Dr. Philipp Wolfesberger is an interdisciplinary social scientist specializing in political sociology and political theory with a transregional focus on Latin America. Since 2021, he has been a research and teaching associate and executive director at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University, where he is completing his habilitation with a monograph on temporalities of solidarity. Philipp Wolfesberger is a researcher and co-convener of the Long Term Group “Dimensions of Regulation” (2026-28), funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. He is also an associated postdoctoral researcher in the international research project “Turning Land into Capital”, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. He received his PhD in political science on mechanisms of violence in the context of the drug war in Mexico (summa cum laude, University of Vienna, 2015). He conducted research on indigenous autonomy and resistance movements with a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was a visiting researcher and lecturer in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Giessen, and he completed research stays in Argentina, Colombia, and the USA. Wolfesberger has worked as a research fellow and analyst for United Nations and the British Foreign Office in Mexico City, as well as in the private sector in Vienna. He is co-publisher of Kipu-Verlag.
Current research topics
Temporalities of Violence and Solidarity
Statehood and state transformation in Latin America
Organised crime
Masculinities
Autonomous governance 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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