Maria Hartmann, M.A.

Maria Hartmann is a Research Associate and PhD fellow in the MeDiMi project “Human Rights Crimes, Norm Entrepreneurs, and the Implementation of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany”. Maria has studied sociology and conflict studies at the University of Marburg and in Turkey. Starting in 2017, she worked for several years in Berlin as a project manager for the human rights organization Adopt a Revolution on the Syrian conflict. In 2021, she returned to the Center for Conflict Studies for her dissertation, which deals with the experience of dissidence as a potential for solidarity in the post-migration society. As a stipend-holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation, she is a member of several working groups on memory, diaspora, and critical migration studies. She works as a freelance journalist and moderator for various platforms, as an editor for the journal Wissenschaft+Frieden, as well as politically on the subject of feminism and transnational solidarity with a regional focus on West Asia. Her main research interests are diaspora and critical migration studies, memory in the post-migration society, German foreign policy in West Asia, as well as participatory research and feminist methods.

Contact: maria.hartmann@staff.uni-marburg.de