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Gisela Hirschmann

Portrait Gisela Hirschmann (photo: udo borchert)
Research Fields
  • Theories of institutional change
  • International organisations
  • Accountability of transnational actors
  • Human rights
  • International Relations
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 547
mail: hirschmann [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions
CV

since 04 2011
PhD Candidate at the Free University Berlin and Research Associate at the Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BTS)

since 11 2010
Doctoral fellow in the research project on „International Organisations and the protection of fundamental rights of individuals“ under the direction of Prof. Michael Zürn and Dr. Monika Heupel

07 2010
Diploma in Political Science (Thesis on Learning in International Organizations)

10 2006 - 07 2007 and 09 2008 - 09 2010
Student research assistant at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Free University Berlin (Chair: Prof. Thomas Risse)

2005 - 2010
Student of Political Science at the Free University Berlin and the Duke University, USA

10 - 12 2009
Visiting Scholar at the New School, New York

08 - 10 2009
Project assistant for "Opportunities and Risks of Elections in Africa" at the Working Group on Peace and Development/Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Other

since 04 2011
Vice-Representative of the junior researchers (NAWI) at the WZB


Selected Publications

Gisela Hirschmann (2012): Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Exit Strategies: Organized Hypocrisy and Institutional Reform, International Peacekeeping, Vol. 19 Nr. 2, 170-185.

Projects

Transnational actors and the accountability of international organizations

International organizations and the protection of fundamental rights of individuals