06. March 2026

Welcome to our new cluster members! Welcome to our new cluster members!

At the General Assembly on Friday, 20 February 2026, the members of the BCDSS voted to welcome a new group of scholars to the cluster. We are delighted to announce their admission and warmly welcome them to our academic community.

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The new cluster members are:

From the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc):

Prof. Dr. Conrad Schetter (Geography)
Dr. Benjamin Etzold (Geography)


From the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS):

Prof. Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Development Politics and Sociology)
Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (Development Anthropology)


From the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "Local Labor Struggles in Global Value Chains: Control and Agency of Smallholders and Farmworkers in Export Commodities in the Global South":

Dr. Caroline Hambloch (Economics, Department of Southeast Asian Studies)
Jorma Apelt (Political Science, Department of Southeast Asian Studies)
Luis Baquero Bernal (Development Studies, Department of Southeast Asian Studies)
Elise Kendall (Development Studies, Department of Southeast Asian Studies)


Further new cluster members are:

Dr. Helen Boeßenecker (Art History, Institute of Art History)
Dr. Michaela Helene Doutch (Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Southeast Asian Studies)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosario Figari Layús (Political Sciences, Institute of Sociology)
Prof. Dr. Jan Bernhard Meister (Ancient History, Department of Ancient History)
Prof. Dr. Michael Rohrschneider (Medieval and Modern History, Department of Early Modern History and Rhenish Regional History)
Prof. Dr. Laury Sarti (Medieval History, Department of Medieval History)
Dr. Ute Wallenböck (Chinese Studies, Department of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies)


We are very pleased to welcome these colleagues from a wide range of disciplines and institutions. Their expertise will further strengthen the cluster’s interdisciplinary exchange and enrich our shared research on dependency and slavery.

We look forward to the conversations, collaborations, and perspectives they will bring to the BCDSS.

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