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Christine M. Klapeer has been head of the department "International Gender Politics and Qualitative Methods" at FB 05 Social Sciences at the University of Kassel since September 2021.

She holds a PhD in political science with a focus on queer_feminist and post-decolonial political theory(s), transnational gender and LGBTIQ* politics, struggles for (sexual/gender) human rights, and (anti-)discrimination and prejudice research. Currently, she works mainly on the negotiation and implementation of LGBTIQ* rights in development politics as well as on ecological-utopian concepts of self/ownership and (queer) political subjectivity. Currently, she is Core Group Member and Working Group Leader in the 2020 approved EU COST Action "LGBTI+ Social and Economic (In-)Equalities".

Christine M. Klapeer received her PhD in political science from the University of Innsbruck by means of a doctoral fellowship and subsequently conducted post-doctoral research at the Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna, where she represented the field of "transnational perspectives on gender relations, body politics and sexualities with a special focus on development policy."In 2016, Christine M. Klapeer moved to the Department of Development Sociology/Politics at the University of Bayreuth as a postdoctoral fellow and in 2017 to the Gender Studies Department at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen as a research associate. She also held visiting professorships at the Central European University (CEU) Budapest (2015), the University of Kassel (2018), and the University of Innsbruck (2020); in 2018, she conducted research as a Visiting Scholar at the "Centre for Feminist Research" at York University Toronto/Tkaronto.

In addition to her current research projects, she produced, among other things, the expertise "Demokratiebildung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in LGBTIQ*-Bewegungskontexten" (Democracy Education of Children and Youth in LGBTIQ* Movement Contexts) for the German Youth Institute and was involved in the implementation of the pilot study "Queer in Wien. On the Living Situation of LGBTIs in Vienna", funded by the Vienna Anti-Discrimination Agency for LGBTIQ Affairs (WASt), as well as in the follow-up project "Urban Sexual Geographies, Queer Citizenship and the Socio-Economic Status of LGBTIQs in Vienna", funded by the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) (co-applicant).