MKGD Early Career Initiative
Masters’ students, PhD candidates, recent PhDs, and PostDocs
The role of gender and diversity in warfare and the military is currently being debated in an emerging interdisciplinary field of research with high societal relevance. The new research network on “Military, War, and Gender/Diversity” (known by its German acronym MKGD) offers a platform for international research which highlights the connective histories of organized violence and gender relations. Our aim is to systematically promote this research approach, i.e. gender/diversity in connection to the military, violence and war, through intensive collaboration. The network was officially founded on 11 March 2024 and currently unites over thirty cooperating researchers from various disciplines at universities and institutions in eight countries, as well as many more on our mailing list.
An important number of early career scholars are currently engaged in or embarking on work in this field of research. We would therefore like to offer an opportunity to meet, network, and collaboratively think about further possibilities of an institutionalized early-career representation in the international research network MKGD.
On 27 November 2024, the MKGD Early Career Initiative hosted its inaugural online meeting. Thanks to the participation of over 30 international researchers, we were able to brainstorm extremely useful ideas for the future direction of the Initiative as a platform for intellectual exchange and collaboration among advanced MA students, PhD candidates, and recent PhD. We are currently thinking of ways to put the suggestions we received into action, so watch this space for updates. If you are interested in joining the conversation and our circle, please email us at mkgd.forschungsverbund@gmail.com.
For the PR Postcard for the Early Career Initiative click here
Organizers:
- Kerstin Bischl (Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin)
- Daniel R. Bonenkamp (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)
- Anke Fischer-Kattner (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)
- Gundula Gahlen (Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
- Anna Elisabeth Gehl (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Jasper Heinzen (York University)
- Stephan Friedrich Mai (University of the Bundeswehr Munich)
- Jan-Martin Zollitsch (Humboldt Universität Berlin)