Ayelet Shachar (FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Chair and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs.
Eva-Maria Schäfferle is a postdoctoral researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt and a member of the Leibniz research group Transformations of Citizenship. She is particularly interested in questions of borders, citizenship and migration as well as in transnational and cosmopolitan theories of democracy.
Lukas Schmid is a postdoctoral research fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt and a member of the Leibniz research group Transformations of Citizenship.
Lilith Mackenberg is a student assistant for the research group.
She is a law student at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and particularly interested in public law, especially asylum and refugee law.
Before her studies, Lilith spent two years working as a flight attendant and lived abroad in the United States of America for one year.
Alumni
Benjamin Boudou (2021 – 2022) worked on borders in democracy and the norms that govern the inclusion and exclusion of migrants. He was particularly interested in the representation of non-citizens and the contentious mobilizations of values such as sanctuary, civility, hospitality or solidarity.
He previously was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po, and Fox international fellow at Yale University. He is the editor of the French journal of political theory Raisons Politiques.
Contact: benjamin.boudou@univ-rennes1.fr
Marie-Eve Loiselle was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Transformations of Citizenship Leibniz Research Group. In 2020, Marie-Eve was awarded a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for studying the role of biometric technologies in the governance of the movement of people across state borders at the University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Prior to joining the Munk School, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Marie-Eve’s book, “Building Walls, Constructing Identities” was published by Stanford University Press in 2024.
From 2016 to 2020 Marie-Eve was a research fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Faculty of Law. She completed her PhD at the Australian National University (ANU) where she explores the role of legal discourses in the construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico. Marie-Eve also holds a MA from the ANU and a law degree from the University of Montreal.