#01 1-2024 Seminário do DCP-USP "Solidarity in constellations of inequality: a postcolonial studies view"

Ina Kerner

Professor of Politics, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Koblenz, Germany
1990 – 1998 undergraduate and graduate studies in Bonn, Quetzaltenango (Guatemala), Chapel Hill (USA) and at Freie Universität Berlin;
1996 – 1998 Teaching Assistant at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin;
1999 – 2005 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) for political theory at the same institute; fall term of 2001 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research (New York City, USA); 2006 Ph.D. (Dr. phil., summa cum laude) at Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin;
2006 – 2009 Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin PostDoc) for gender studies at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women and Gender at Technische Universität Berlin;
2009 – 2016 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Diversity Politics at the Department of Social Sciences and the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; March 2012 Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa); fall term of 2012/13 Fellow of the Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America (desiguALdades.net) at Freie Universität Berlin; May 2013 Guest Lecturer / DAAD Short Term Visiting Professor at Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad, Pakistan); fall term 2014/15 Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Postcolonial Studies and in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London; fall term 2015/16 HEC Guest Professor at the Center of Excellence in Gender Studies at Quaidi-Azam University;
2016 – 2017 Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg; since 2017 Professor of Politics in the Department of Cultural Studies at University of Koblenz; Koblenz; fall term 2016/17 Fellow in the Research Group “Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights” at Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung / Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld; 

2022 Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain.

2024 Senior Fellow at Maria Sibylla Merian Centre: Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila)