Irene Weipert-Fenner
- Political Science
Areas of Expertise:
Comparative politics of the MENA; Authoritarian regimes; Political transformation; Democratization; Political institutions; Social movements; Contentious politics
Membership:
2019
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2024
Contact
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany
Baseler Str. 27-31
60329 Frankfurt
Germany
+49 69 959 104 71
weipert(at)prif.org
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About me
AGYA offers fascinating possibilities to enlarge my networks with colleagues from the MENA region, to create new projects in interdisciplinary teams, and to think outside of the box and engage in new forms of exchange beyond traditional academic settings.
Academic career
| 2019 - 2020 | Mentee in the Leibniz Association Mentoring Program for Outstanding Female Researchers, Germany |
| 2019 | Visiting Professor in Middle Eastern Politics, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany |
| 2014 - today | Project Director and Senior Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Research Department, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) |
| 2013 - 2015 | Postdoc Position in the Research Network ‘Re-configurations: History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa’, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany |
| 2014 | Dissertation Award, German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) |
| 2009 - 2013 | Ph.D. in Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2008 - 2009 | Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Middle East Department, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany |
| 2008 | M.A. in Political Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
- AGYA Publications
- Go local, go global: Studying popular protests in the MENA post-2011
- My Commitment to AGYA
- Former Member in Charge of the Working Group 'Transformation'
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
Life as Politics by Asef Bayat
Favourite novel:
Unterleuten by Juli Zeh
