Anita Gohdes

Anita Gohdes is Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Centre for International Security, Hertie School in Berlin. She works at the intersection of international security and technology, focusing on contentious politics in the digital realm and state repression with cyber controls. Her academic journey includes roles as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Zurich and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center International Security Program. She is currently completing a book titled Repression in the Digital Age, published by Oxford University Press.

Her research explores the measurement of political violence, surveillance, censorship, and hybrid warfare. Her work has been featured in top-tier journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, and Nature Human Behavior. She serves as Associate Editor at the Journal of Peace Research.

• Advisory roles for the German Federal Foreign Office and consultancies with the World Bank and United Nations
• Collaboration with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group since 2009
• Professorship funded by NXP Semiconductors Germany, supported by the Stifterverband

Scientific awards include the German Dissertation Prize in the Social Sciences (Körber Foundation), Walter Isard Dissertation Prize (Peace Science Society), and the 2024 Goldsmith Book Prize.