Prof. Dr. Kristina Dietz

Professor in International Relations with a focus on Latin America

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+49 561 804-3516
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Department
International Relations with a focus on Latin America
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Location
Nora-Platiel-Straße 5
34127 Kassel
Room
Nora-Platiel 5, Raum 3214
Consultation Hours

Office hours in the winter semester 25/26


February 4, 2026, 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

New dates for office hours will be published shortly.

Please contact Selina Rasch to arrange an appointment. Select a suitable subject line and describe your request in a few lines. Please also indicate whether you prefer an in-person or digital consultation. You will then receive a prompt reply and further information about the consultation.

  • Since 2023 Professor at the Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel
  • 2020-2022 substitute professor at the Institute for International and Intersocietal Relations, Universität Kassel
  • 2014-2019 Director of the Junior Research Group “Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (with Bettina Engels), Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013-2014 Fellow, ”International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America“, desiguALdades.net, Ibero-American Institute - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz), Berlin
  • 2009-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Director of the Junior Research Group “Fair-Fuels? - Between dead end and energy transition: A social-ecological multilevel analysis of transnational biofuel policy.” (with Bernd Hirschl, Institute for Ecological Economy Research - IÖW)
  • 2010 Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Universität Kassel, Subject of doctoral thesis: ”Complex vulnerabilities: Political and socio-ecological dimensions of climate-vulnerability”
  • 2007 Predoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, Universität Kassel. Coordination of the PhD program "Global Social Policy and Governance“
  • 2004-2007 Predoctoral Researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute (Otto-Suhr-Institut), FU Berlin. Research project “Global Governance and Climate Change: a multi-level analysis of the Conditions, Risks and Chances of Social-Ecological Transformations”
  • Development studies
  • International environmental, climate, energy and resource politics
  • Political Ecology, socio-ecological crisis and transformation
  • Global political economy
  • Democracy theory and politics
  • Social movements studies and contentious politics
  • Critical Agrarian Studies and rural transformation
  • Regional focus: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Latin America and transregional research
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