This week, my new research project "Violence against Grassroots Political Actors" has started! My colleague Klara Panther and I will examine violence against civil society actors in Germany, with a focus on victimization patterns, the impacts on socio-political activity, and public perceptions. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation. More details availabe at: … Continue reading Start of new project!
New publication in the Journal of Peace Research: And still she rises? Perceptions of the demobilizing effects of repression, with Ragnhild Nordås and Ingrid Vik Bakken. In a survey experiment among the U.S. public, we find that rape is perceived as more demobilizing across the board. However, defying prominent gender stereotypes, respondents do not expect … Continue reading New publication
I am looking for a researcher with an interest in political violence, very good statistics skills and an interest in a mixed-methods designs to join my DFG-funded project "Violence against Political Actors at the Grassroots Level". 👉 https://en.kfn.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/08/Stellenausschreibung_Politische-Gewalt-an-der-Basis_englisch.pdf
I am delighted to report that I have received a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the three-year, mixed-methods project "Violence against political actors at the grassroots level." The focus will lie on individuals active in civil society organizations, political parties and party youth organizations in Germany, who have never competed in democratic … Continue reading New research grant
Karin Johansson Schaftenaar (Uppsala University) and I have received a grant from the Swedish Research Council for a 3-year project entitled "Between Exigency and Backlash: International Responses to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence."With transnational anti-feminist and anti-gender movements on the rise, and in a context of major geopolitical transformations, prior commitments to combatting CRSV have weakened in … Continue reading New research grant
The article "Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability and Policy Preferences," co-authored with Mattias Agerberg, is now included in the most recent issue of the American Political Science Review. Using survey experiments of U.S. and UK respondents, we show that people underestimate the extent to which civilian men become victims in war, consider them less innocent … Continue reading Article on public attitudes towards male victims of conflict violence in new APSR issue
At the beginning of 2024, I started my new position as researcher at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony. I have been warmly welcomed and look forward to working with a wonderful team over the next years. As co-head of the research unit "Victimology," my research will focus even more than in the past … Continue reading Started new position
I have a new publication out with Ida Bastiaens and Evgeny Postnikov. We examine the relationship between labor provisions in preferential trade agreements and women's rights in the Global South: http://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13267
For early career researchers, the academic job market is challenging. It can easily feel like an obstacle course without a finish line. I found the cycle of looking for jobs, writing applications, waiting, getting a rejection (or never hearing back), then scouring for jobs again both exhausting and demoralizing. This is an attempt to put … Continue reading The Academic Job Market: Choosing Yourself
Our article (with A. Towns and B. Niklasson) on gender patterns in ambassador appointments is an Editor’s Pick for the European Journal of Politics and Gender 2023 Student Reading List. All articles on the reading list, from the three categories of "gender and IR", "LGBTQIA* politics and policies" and "gender equality and public policy" are … Continue reading Article on gender patterns in ambassador appointments on EJPG Student Reading List 2023
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Kreft 