ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Whitman College (Fall 2022 - Present)
Assistant Professor of Politics and Paul Garret Fellow
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Lafayette College (Spring 2020 - Spring 2021)
Visiting Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology and of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
EDUCATION
2021: Ph.D. in Sociology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Summa Cum Laude, JLU Dissertation Award and ADLAF Dissertation Award
Dissertation Committee: Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (First Advisor), Marisol de la Cadena (Second Advisor)
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2015: M.A in Political Theory, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
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2012: B.A. in Political Science (Minor in International Law), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITING POSITIONS
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Paul Garret Fellow (2025-present)
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Global Dialogues Grant, Project with Comunálisis (2023–2024 and 2025–present)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Visitor, School of Social Science (2021–2022)
Stiftung Umverteilen, Berlin, Germany
Grant, Project with CASCOMI and Comunálisis “Biblioteca Comunitaria Llakta Yuyarina” (2021)
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Giessen, Germany
Graduate Fellow (2016–2020)
Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany
Graduate Research Grant (2018–2019)
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Quito, Ecuador
Visiting Researcher, Social and Global Studies Program (2017 and 2018–2019)
University of California, Davis, CA
Visiting Researcher, Department of Anthropology (2018)
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Researcher, Program in Critical Theory (2017)
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany
Undergraduate and Graduate Fellow (2010-2015)
Fulbright American Studies Program, Berlin, Germany
Fellow, Summer Program at the Free University of Berlin (2011)
SEMPÉRTEGUI CV MAY 2024