On 1 October, the Cultural and Political Geography welcomed Matt Varco as a new research associate. Matt joins us after a doctoral position at the University of Manchester, UK, where he focused on the importance of nature in the history of German-language right-wing politics as a symbolic, ideological and material terrain in his dissertation ‘Political Ecologies of the German Far-right’. Matt's postdoc project is tentatively titled ‘Fascist future-making and authoritarian affinities in the racial anthropocene’ and aims to understand the increasingly complex ways in which the global right interprets and responds to the conditions of socio-ecological collapse.

Matt works primarily with qualitative methods and specialises in archival, ethnographic, textual and visual forms of research. Matt also brings a wealth of teaching experience, from which we are very happy to benefit. Welcome Matt!

‘Cultural and Political Geography’ in Department VI has an opening for a student assistant (f/m/d) in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project WISCA, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Foundation, starting 1 October 2024. The position is for 4 hours per week for 9 months.
Please refer to the attached job posting for complete information.