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Dr. Anan Alsheikh Haidar is a research fellow at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne, Germany. She worked at the same institute as a Phillipp Schwartz fellow from July 2016 to December 2018.

Dr. Haidar studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Damascus, Syria, and received her Diploma in Law in 2000. She earned her Master of Laws (LLM) in Advanced Legal Studies as a Chevening scholar at the School of Law at the University of Reading, UK, in 2005, followed by her Ph.D. in Law in 2010 in the principal subjects of International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Security Studies. She worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Damascus University from 2010 to 2014, as well as at the Syrian Virtual University.

Bianca Sola Claudio is pursuing a PhD on the topic of migration at the University of Cologne, focusing on normative questions of distributive justice and asylum in the European context. Her dissertation examines the application of Amartya Sen’s capability approach to defining a social minimum for asylum seekers. Her research interests, in addition to migration ethics, include political theory and care ethics, as well as post-colonial approaches to reparative justice. Bianca Sola Claudio is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen and a lecturer for the Cologne Global Study Program at the University of Cologne.

Matthias Kliemann completed his state examination for the teaching profession in German studies and history at the University of Cologne and, after completing his traineeship, is now working on his doctorate on the limits and possibilities of heterotopological readings of crime novels and their genre poetology following Foucault's spatial-theoretical approaches and structuralist analyses of the development of crime narratives by Luc Boltanski.

His research interests include literary approaches to questions of space,meaning and narratology, as well as related questions of political theory.

In addition to teaching at the CGSP, he also fulfils other teaching assignments in literary studies at the University of Koblenz, be it introductory seminars or advanced seminars for Bachelor's and Master's students.