PhD Students
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Prince Asiedu
Working title:
Entanglements of Inequality in Agroecological Transitions: Casting a Socio-Ecological Intersectionality Lens on Smallholder Farmers’ Everyday Negotiations.
Contact:
Email: asiedu05@ads.uni-passau.de
Telephone: +49 175 9657274
Adress: Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Straße 14b, 94032 Passau, Room 418
Publications: Google scholar

David Kintero Thokora
Dissertation title:
Enhancing Fair Mobility:A Gender- and Intersectionality-Sensitive Transdisciplinary Approach to Peri-Urban Mobility
https://fair-mobility.eu/
Contact:
Coordinator - Project Fair Mobility
Research assistant
Landshut University of Applied Sciences
Technology Center for Energy
Wiesenweg 1, D - 94099 Ruhstorf an der Rott
Room: TZE 102
Phone: +49 (0)8531 - 914044-38
kinter01@ads.uni-passau.de
Sanchali Sarkar

Curriculum vitae
- Doctoral Researcher at University of Passau
- Former Pre-Doctoral AUFF researcher at the School of Culture and Society (Aarhus University, Denmark; Autumn 2018)
- M.A., English Literature (University of Kalyani, 2011)
Publications
Upcoming Publication:
- Co-editing a volume on ‘queering urban spaces” (from Brill, tentative publication: November 2025)
Relevant Publications:
- Sarkar, Sanchali. 2024. Women and Wartime Sexual Violence: The ‘Comfort Women’ and the ‘Virangana’. Sagir Ali, Avijit Basak (Ed) Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature. Springer Nature
- Sarkar, Sanchali. 2019. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal. Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Anindya Sekhar Purkaystha (Ed) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge India
- Sarkar, Sanchali. 2018. Security and Agency of Women in the Hyper-Masculine Space of Local Trains in West Bengal. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium [Online], ISSN 2581-7361, Vo-2 (1) Peer reviewed
Focus areas
Working title: Travel Experiences of South Asian Women in Germany: An Intersectional Analysis
My research lies at the intersection of gender, mobility and migration with a particular focus on the South Asian diaspora in Germany.

Tongam Panggabean
Dissertation title:
Indigeneity and Indigenous Rights Movement in Contemporary Indonesia
Publications:
- Panggabean, Tongam, Dustin Roasa. 2021. ‘Disaster Shadows Chinese Mining Ventures in Southeast Asia.’ The Diplomat, 28 January
- Panggabean, T and Eko Cahyono (ed). (2022). Ilusi Industri Pariwisata: Cerminan KrisisLingkungan dan Ancaman Green Grabbing di Kawasan Danau Toba, Obelia Publisher, ISBN: 9786238188079
- Panggabean, T. (2022). Epilog: Mitos Ekonomi Hijau, Penjelasan tentang Persoalan HAM dan Ekologi di Kawasan Strategis Nasional Danau Toba in Panggabean, T, Eko Cahyono (ed). (2022). IIlusi Industri Pariwisata: Cerminan Krisis Lingkungan dan Ancaman Green Grabbing di Kawasan Danau Toba, Obelia Publisher, ISBN: 9786238188079
- Panggabean, T. (2015). Desa dan Bayang-bayang Investasi, in Simanjuntak, B. (2015). Arti dan Fungsi Tanah Bagi Masyarakat Batak Toba, Yayasan Obor Indonesia, ISBN: 978-979-461-938-4
Contact:
Fulda Graduate Center of Social Sciences (FGCSS)
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
+4915228576345
tongam.panggabean@sk.hs-fulda.de
Anna Rosita Knoebl

Lebenslauf
Anna Rosita Knöbl, also known as Anna Knöbl, is the founder of the Ruanita Perempuan Indonesia Foundation (https://ruanita.com). She is an author and the producer of the Spotify podcasts RUMPITA (in Bahasa Indonesia) and Jibber-Jabber: Indonesian Women Abroad (in English).
Anna Rosita Knöbl, auch bekannt als Anna Knöbl, ist Gründerin der Ruanita Perempuan Indonesia Foundation (https://ruanita.com). Sie ist Autorin und produziert die Spotify-Podcasts RUMPITA (auf Indonesisch) und Jibber-Jabber: Indonesian Women Abroad (auf Englisch).
Publikationen
Rosita, Anna. (2007). Kegiatan Peringatan Hari AIDS Sedunia 2006 (1st ed.). Jakarta: World Vision International Indonesia.
Rosita, Anna. (2007). Cegah HIV & AIDS dari sekarang: (Kegiatan Peringatan Hari AIDS Sedunia 2006) (1st ed.). Jakarta: World Vision International Indonesia.
Knöbl, Anna., Narang-Huth, D., & Gibbons, Z. (2022). Cinta tanpa batas: Kisah cinta lintas benua (1st ed.). Sidoarjo: Padmedia.
Knöbl, Anna. (2023). Warna-warni kepemimpinan perempuan. Yogyakarta: Bintang Semesta Media.

Swathi Manalodiparambil
Contact:
Swathi Manalodiparambil_Swa@phd.ceu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Heritage and Place-making: Invisible Plants and People
Affiliation
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy
Central European University, Vienna
Publications
Fasal, F. R., & Manalodiparambil, S. (2023). Urban fragments in the politics of infrastructure: land claims and livelihood spaces of a fishing community in Chennai. Environment & Urbanization, 35(1), 220-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478221149843 (Original work published 2023)
Mareike Sophie Hoffmann
Mareike Hoffmann

Publications
Hoffmann, M. S. (2026). Development on Whose Terms? Paternalism in Gender and Youth Empowerment Programmes in the Solomon Islands. In von Schmettow, J. et al., (Eds.)., Sorge und Ungleichheit. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
von Schmettow, J., Hoffmann, M. S., Ebbertz, J. & Burow, J. (2026). Einleitung. In von Schmettow, J. et al., (Eds.), Sorge und Ungleichheit. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Hoffmann, M. S. (2025). Catcalling as Demonstration of Masculinity in Public Space. In Wagner, A. & Condello, A. (eds.) In (In)Visible Signs of Gender-Based Violence. Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism, vol 1. (pp. 73-98). Springer, Cham.
Hoffmann, M. S. (2025). Gutes Leben als Freiheit von sexualisierter Gewalt im öffentlichen Raum - der Fall "Catcalling". In John, J., Casata, R. & Henkel, A. (eds.), 10 Minuten Soziologie: Gutes Leben (pp. 91-104). transcript.
Hoffmann, M. S. (2023). Reclaiming the Right to Imagine Pacific Pasts, Present and Futures. Climate Change Narratives by Pacific Climate Warriors. In Bitzer et al. (eds.), Zeit und Sorge (pp. 251-268). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Bitzer, M., Bosbach, I., Burow, J., Band, L., Ehrens, C., Hoffmann, M., John, J., Kedenburg, O., Sellig, J. & Stiller, L. (2023). Einleitung: Zeit und Sorge. Eine Verhältnisbestimmung. In Bitzer et al. (eds.), Zeit und Sorge (pp. 11-28). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Padmanabhan, M., Dinkelaker, S., Hoffmann, M., Laksmana, D., Maimunah, S., Rudakova, E., Still, E., & Trotier, F. (2021). Principles of Critical Development Studies: A Minifesto. ASIEN (160/161), 210–220.
Focus areas
Titel der Dissertation: Caring for the ‚Hapi Isles‘: Climate action and socio-ecological transformation in the Solomon Islands
- Feminist and participatory research methodologies
- Social Movements
- Youth Participation
- Gender Studies
- Development Studies