Welcome to the University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Anne Lisa Carstensen!

Dr. Anne Lisa Carstensen has been head of the department "Global Political Economy of Work with regard to Gender Relations" since September 2022 and has been Managing Director of the Institute for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at the University of Kassel since October 2022. Lisa Carstensen completed her doctorate at the University of Osnabrück in 2018 with a thesis on modern slave labor in Brazil. Most recently, she worked at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, where she researched the relationship between migrant mobilizations and trade unions in Germany. She is currently researching the role of time in conflicts over work and migration. Her research focuses on migration and work, trade unions, intersectionality and global networks of production and reproduction. At the University of Kassel, she will head the Master's degree programme Labour Policies and Globalization and contribute to the establishment of the Kassel Institute for Sustainability.