GIGA Expert Dr. Julia Grauvogel Appointed Professor at Leuphana University

With this appointment, Leuphana University honours Julia Grauvogel’s rich academic career to date and her internationally renowned research. Her nomination is linked to her successful application to the Leibniz Programme for Women Professors, which aims to attract outstanding female scholars to professorial positions. The new GIGA research project “Ending External Interventions: Success, Failure, and Exit Dilemmas” will be funded within this framework; it is to examine the termination of external interventions such as sanctions, peace missions, and military operations in situations of armed conflict. Grauvogel leads the project. At the GIGA, she has made a significant contribution to the advancement of scholarship on sanctions and external interventions. Her work combines comparative approaches with grounding in strong empirical foundations, earning international recognition in the process. In addition to her research, Grauvogel has been closely involved for many years now in supporting early-career scholars and fostering international networking between academic peers. The Director of the GIGA Institute for African Studies, Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau, highlights the special significance of the appointment for the Institute as well: “Julia has had a picture-perfect career at the GIGA: from intern to project staff member and, via a tenured senior researcher, now to university professor.” The professorship further strengthens the close cooperation between the GIGA and Leuphana University. The appointment also underscores the importance of the Hamburg metropolitan region as a hub for research as well as the vital role of targeted funding instruments in the career development of female researchers.