Former employees
Dr. Simon Rowedder
Dr. Simon Rowedder was an academic advisor at our chair. In the meantime, he has moved to the Chair of Critical Development Studies Southeast Asia at the University of Passau. After his studies in Cultural Studies, his academic journey took him to China (exchange year at Yunnan University in the Bachelor program, MA in International Relations at Xiamen University), Thailand (Research Affiliate at Chiang Mai University) and finally to Singapore, where he completed his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2018. During his subsequent three years as a postdoctoral research fellow at NUS, he turned his doctoral thesis into a book. This ethnographic work on cross-border trade networks in the border region of Yunnan, Laos and Thailand was published by Amsterdam University Press in July 2022. His research interests lie in economic anthropology, border studies and development studies with a focus on Sino-Southeast Asian border areas.
Praphakorn Lippert
Praphakorn Lippert studied Social Sciences for Development at Silpakorn University, Thailand and Ethnology, Political Science and History of South Asia at the University of Heidelberg. She worked for the Foundation for Women in Bangkok, where she was responsible for public health measures for Burmese migrants working in Thailand. Since 2014, she has focused on her political work, organising events on political developments in Thailand and coordinating pro-democratic groups of Thai people in Europe. Her research focuses on authoritarianism, vigilantism, forced disappearances, and social movements.
Publications
Nwet Kay Khine
Nwet Kay Khine, a researcher and a writer from Myanmar was hosted by the Chair of Development Politics at Passau University for her post-doctoral research fellowship under the mentorship of the Chairholder, Dr. Wolfram Schaffar between May 2021 to July 2023. Her study in Passau University was supported by the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies which is funded by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and six-month fellowship under Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research focuses on examining on enabling and limiting factors that shape ideological and coercive state apparatus including characteristics of the digital authoritarian regime and emerging new understanding on academic freedom within Myanmar.
Mirjam Lé
Mirjam Lé finished her Ph.D. in small-town urbanization and the production of urban space in Vietnam at the University of Passau. Her research interests involve practices of materiality, remoteness as social practice, and state-society relations in Vietnam, especially processes of self-organization and citizenship. She works as a researcher on a project on citizenship in Vietnam in cooperation with the University of Passau and Franziska S. Nicolaisen. Her current research project investigates the link between urban citizenship and social media.
Franziska Nicolaisen
Franziska Nicolaisen has a master's degree in "International Cultural and Business Studies (ICBS)" with a focus on Southeast Asia. She has previously done research on urbanization processes, urban mobility, and state-society relations in Vietnam.
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