Academic interests
Sexual and gender-based violence, political violence, armed conflict, civil society activism, social transformations in war, public and international responses to armed conflict, women's rights, Colombia, mixed methods, fieldwork, survey experiments
Background
Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (Mar-Sep 2020)
PhD Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2019)
MA Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA (2015)
MA Political Science, Western Washington University, USA (2010)
BA British and American Studies (major), Text Technology (minor), University of Bielefeld, Germany (2007)
Visiting researcher:
German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany (2022)
Centre for Gender Resarch, University of Oslo, Norway (2020)
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (2018)
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Oslo, Norway (2017)
Anne-Kathrin Kreft has also worked as project manager in higher education research and consulting, and she has completed short-term positions and internships at KfW Development Bank (Frankfurt, Germany), German Agency for International Cooperation, GIZ (Lusaka, Zambia), the German Federal Foreign Office (Berlin, Germany) and the World Federation of United Nations Associations (New York, USA).
Awards
Christiane-Rajewsky-Prize for PhD dissertation "Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: Threat, Mobilization and Gender Norms", German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (2020)
James Caporaso Best Paper Award for "Authoritarian Institutions and Women's Rights" (co-authored with Daniela Donno), Comparative Political Studies (2020)