Student Assistant

Franziska Knierim obtained her bachelor’s degree in social- and cultural Anthropology and Political Science at FU Berlin and is currently doing her Masters in Ethnography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018, she is part of the multilingual, multimedia Network Encounter, which focuses on the facilitation of transcultural learning through personal connections.

Franziska now holds the student coordinator position for the Humbolt-Scholarships’ Themenklasse “Sustainability and Global Justice” at IRI THESys, which this year will focus on “the rights of nature – the right to food”.

Research Interests

  • Knowledge Production and Transfer and its Usage in society
  • Critical Migrationstudies and societal change
  • Human – Nature relations