CV – Kirsty Campbell
Academic career
2021-2024: PhD at the Professorship for Insecurity and Social Order at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Koloniale Kämpferinnen. Female Fighters for Empire: The role of German women in the perpetration of colonial violence in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1915. Abschluss: summa cum laude / 1,0
2019-2020: MSc in War Studies from the University of Glasgow. Final grade: with distinction.
2015-2019: Bachelor with Joint Honours in English literature and History from the University of Glasgow. Final Grade: First Class.
Work and project experience
Since July 2025: Research Associate (PostDoc) at the Chair of Political Science with special focus on domestic politics and comparative government at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universität der Bundeswehr München. Works in the project Risk.Twin
July 2023-June 2024: Research Associate at the Junior Professorship for Insecurity and Social Order at the Depatment of Political and Social Sciences, University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Scientific and academic coordinator in the project DiREKt-Roma.
September 2023-December 2023: DAAD-Research scholarship for fieldwork in Namibia.
May 2022-June 2023: Research Associate at the Chair for International Relations and Transnational Politics at the University of Leipzig. Editorial Manager of the academic journaL: Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZEFKO)
Mai 2021-Juni 2023: Research Associate at the Chair of Political Science with special focus on domestic politics and comparative government at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universität der Bundeswehr München. Worked in the projects Risk.Twin (June 2022-June 2023), ReSiFo (May 2021-June 2022), and SPARTA (May-December 2021)
Mai 2019-April 2020: Research Associate at the Faculty of History in the School of Arts at the University of Glasgow in a cooperative project with the Rwandan Academy of Languages and Culture (RALC), including a research stay in Rwanda in December 2019
Languages
Mother tongue: German, English
Good working knowledge: Spanish