Cilja Harders

Biography

since 04/2007: Professor and Head of the Labor Office of the Front East, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin 09 / 2002-03 / 2007: Juniorprofessure "Gender Research with a Focus on Political Science", Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 08/2001 - 08/2002: Research Assistant (C1) with a focus on Political Science and Gender Research (Prof. Dr. Brigitte Young), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 1995-1999: Dissertation "Urban Poverty and Political Participation in Egypt. Micro- and mesopolitical analyzes of different Cairo districts ", University of Hamburg, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences (Disputation: Nov. 1999) 04 / 1995-02 / 1998: Research assistant at the DFG project "Democratization and Participation" (Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff), University of Hamburg, Institute for Political Science 1987-1994: Study of Political Science and the minor subjects of Literary Studies and Sociology at the Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg (graduation with the Magister Artium)

Research Interest

Transformation of statehood between democratization and authoritarianism, Participation and transformation Poverty, foreign and security policy in the Middle East after 11 September 2001 regional cooperation in the Middle East Euro-Arab relations gender research, particularly gender and violence Peace and conflict research as well as the participation of women