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Dr. Philipp Lottholz is a Research Fellow at Philipps-Universität Marburg's Centre for Conflict Research, specializing in peace, conflict, and security studies with a focus on post-Soviet and Central Asian contexts. He holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Birmingham, alongside roles as a postdoc in Germany and the UK, and has conducted fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. His research critiques conventional statebuilding paradigms, explores decolonial methodologies, and examines security practices in post-imperial spaces.
Research interests include cooperative ethnographic approaches, researcher safety, and the intersection of pandemic policies with intra-EU mobility. He co-authored Security Above the Law? (2021), analyzing Germany's pandemic bordering of East European migrants. His work spans academic journals like Europe-Asia Studies and International Peacekeeping, emphasizing post-liberal critiques of governance and security discourses.
Lottholz has held visiting fellowships at institutions including the University of Reading and American University of Central Asia. He currently leads the postdocs' spokesperson role at his Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 138). His research bridges theory and practice, advocating for dialogical and decolonial frameworks in conflict studies.
