About Us Anne Cathrin Ziegler
Doctoral Researcher, CRC Home(s)
Anne Ziegler is a doctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Center 1671 Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations (2024-2036) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Anne studied Political Science (BA) at the Free University of Berlin. As part of an academic year abroad, she was at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo from 2016 to 2017. She then completed a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin with a focus on gender studies.
After completing her Master's degree, she worked in project management for the Global Institute for market and opinion research Ipsos and as a research assistant at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2022, she began her doctorate in the Department of Sociology at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In her dissertation project “Afro-indigenous cosmovisions, identity negotiation and the struggle for land”, she deals with the connections between cosmovision, processes of identity formation and the activism around land rights of Brazilian Quilombo communities. Anne has additional experience from time spent as a working student at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and from work with the International Youth Volunteer Service (IJFD) in San Marcos Sierras, Argentina, which was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ).
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Anne Cathrin Ziegler
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: a.ziegler(at)sfb1671.uni-heidelberg.de