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Prof. Dr. Ina Kerner serves as Professor for Dynamics of Globalization and Head of the Political Science Seminar at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Koblenz-Landau since October 2017. A leading scholar in globalization studies, her work critically examines gender rights, inequality, and postcolonial dynamics across Latin America and beyond.
Her academic foundation spans multiple international institutions: University of Bonn, Universidad de San Carlos (Guatemala), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Free University of Berlin, reflecting a deeply interdisciplinary background.
Research focuses on the interplay between global governance structures and localized contestations of gender rights, with fieldwork across Latin America, South Asia, and Africa. She pioneers frameworks analyzing "conviviality-inequality" dialectics and transnational feminist movements within globalizing contexts.
Her accolades include nine prestigious fellowships:
- Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila) Senior Fellowship (2024)
- Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law Fellowship (2022)
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship on Global Gender Rights Contestations (2020-2021)
- K채te Hamburger Kolleg Global Cooperation Fellowship (2016-2017)
- HEC Short-Term Guest Professorship at Quaid-i-Azam University (2015)
- Goldsmiths University of London Postcolonial Studies Fellowship (2014-2015)
- DAAD Short-Term Lectureship at Quaid-i-Azam University (2013)
- desiguALdades.net Research Network Fellowship (2012-2013)
- University of the Western Cape Humanities Research Fellowship (2012)
She actively supervises bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses in political science as evidenced by "Abschlussarbeiten" and "Dissertationen" sections in her academic profile. Her research is institutionally anchored through the Political Science Seminar and sustained by international grant networks including Mecila, ZiF, and desiguALdades.net.
