Education and Work Experience

• 01/2017 - 10/2024: University of Potsdam, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, International Politics
• 01/2017 - 09/2020: Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transnational Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
• 10/2014 - 09/2015: London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc. Global Politics (Global Civil Society)
• 10/2009 - 09/2014: Freie Universität Berlin, B.A. Political Science

Academic Appointments, Scientific Activities & Outreach

• 01/2017 - 10/2024: University of Potsdam, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, International Politics
• Since 04/2023: University of Bern, Department of Political Science (IPW), EU-HORIZON Project “UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain feminism losers as mainstream voters”, PostDoc Researcher
• 04/2022 - 03/2023: Academic Advisor for 19 civil society projects on preventing online hate and building democracy online, funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Das NETTZ, Berlin
• Since 01/2019: Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS), Research Fellow, coordinator of European Writing group, and mentor of two mentees in Germany and the US
• 10/2017 - 09/2021: Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies, Research Affiliate
• 09/2016 - 09/2022: University of Potsdam, Department of Economics and Social Science, Chair of International Relations, Research Associate and Lecture
• 10/2015 - 04/2016: NGO Branch of the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination (OESC) at the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs, individual Research Project on Working Methods, Carlo-Schmid-Fellow & Intern
• 06/2013 - 12/2013: Transparency International Kyrgyzstan (TIK), ASApreneurs Fellow & Intern

Fellowships, Stipends and Awards

• 10/2015 - 04/2016: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Stiftung Mercator, DAAD - Carlo-Schmid-Program Fellowship and Scholarship
• 11/2015: London School of Economics and Political Science - MSc Global Politics Award for the best dissertation 2015
• 10/2014 - 09/2015: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) annual full stipend for graduates studying abroad
• 06/2013 - 12/2013: Engagement Global ASA Programm - Fellowship and Scholarship - ASApreneurs - "Shaping a sustainable World"
• 09/2011 - 12/2011: ERASMUS Stipend for academic mobility of students in the EU (France)
• 02/2011 - 03/2011: PROMOS Stipend, Freie Universität Berlin

• Political Violence

• Gender

• (Counter-)Terrorism

• UN

• Inter-Institutional Cooperation

• ‘Triple Nexus’ (Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus)

• Feminism

• Feminist Discursive Institutionalism

• P/CVE (Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism)

• Discourse

• Anti-Feminist Movements

• (Online) Collective Identities

• Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization

• Feminist Security Studies

Journal Articles

• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Cut from the same cloth? The problem with deradicalization programs treatment of male supremacy, with Megan Kelly, Men & Masculinities Journal, July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X241264245.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Outsourcing Patriarchy in approaches to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), with Megan Kelly, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2024.2312840.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Victim, Violent, Vulnerable: A feminist response to the ‘Incel Radicalization Scale’, with Megan Kelly and Lisa Sugiura, Perspectives on Terrorism, March 2024. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27301121.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. „Too Big but Too Small“ – Challenges for Conducting Discourse Analysis With Word Embeddings in Medium-Sized Databases, Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529684469.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. “Man(n) darf heute gar nichts mehr sagen…” Zum Zusammenwirken von ‚Manosphere‘ und Mainstream in Diskursen um Männlichkeit, Misogynie und (Anti-)Feminismus, Bürger & Staat: Radikale Milieus. Dimensionen Politischer Gewalt im 21. Jahrhundert, Heft 3, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48350/187449.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Von Gamergate zu Andrew Tate: Misogynie und Antifeminismus zwischen Mainstream und extremistischer Gewalt, Wissen schafft Demokratie, 13, 2023. https://www.idz-jena.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs_WsD13/WsD13_Ann-Kathrin_Rothermel.pdf.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’, Big Data & Society, 10:1, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221145671.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Introduction: gender and the governance of terrorism and violent extremism, with Laura J. Shepherd, Critical Studies on Terrorism (introduction to the Special Issue), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2101535.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Gender at the crossroads: the role of gender in the UN’s global counterterrorism reform at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15: 3, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2021.1969061.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Angriffe auf die Chancengleichheit, WeltTrends - das außenpolitische Journal, 185, p. 28-33, 2022. ISBN 978-3-947802-84-5.
• Rothermel, A. 2020, 'Gender in the United Nations’ agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 720–741. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2020.1827967.
• Rothermel, A. 2020, 'Die Manosphere. Die Rolle von digitalen Gemeinschaften und regressiven Bewegungsdynamiken für on- und offline Antifeminismus', Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 491-505. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2020-0041.
• Rothermel, A. 2020, ' "The Other Side": Assessing the Polarization of Gender Knowledge Through a Feminist Analysis of the Affective-Discursive in Anti-Feminist Online Communities', Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa024.
• Rothermel, A. 2020, 'Global-local dynamics in anti-feminist discourses:  an analysis of Indian, Russian and US online communities', International Affairs, vol. 96, no. 5, pp. 1-19. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa130.

Books, Edited Volumes, and Book Chapters

• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Die Mannosphere: Männlichkeit(en), Misogynie und Rechtsextremismus, with Greta Jasser, in: Handbuch Rechtsextremismus (eds: Fabian Virchow, Anke Hoffstadt, Cordelia Heß, Alexander Häusler), 2024, Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38373-2_54-1.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Securitization, Expansion, Integration – Tracing shifts in the UN’s governance of “terrorism and violent extremism” as global challenge, in: Global Challenges in World Politics. Discourses, Actors, and Outcomes (eds: Alina Isakova, Malte Neuwinger, Robin Schulze Waltrup, Oday Uraiqat), June 2024, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003452348-14.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin and Laura J. Shepherd (eds.). 2023. Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-the-Governance-of-Terrorism-and-Violent-Extremism/Rothermel-Shepherd/p/book/9781032463476.

• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. “Fake Science” – Wissenschaft und Universität in transnationalen Anti-Gender Diskursen, in: Geschlechter in (Un)Ordnung?! - Wissenschaftliche Irritationen binärer Geschlechterkonstruktionen (eds: Nina Hackmann, Dulguun Shirchinbal, Christina Wolff), 2023, Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4163724.12.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Of victims, mass murder and ‘real men’ – the masculinities of the ‘Manosphere’, with Greta Jasser and Megan Kelly, in: Male Supremacism in the United States. From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right (eds: Emily Carian, Alex DiBranco, Chelsea Ebin), 2022, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Male-Supremacism-in-the-United-States-From-Patriarchal-Traditionalism-to/Carian-DiBranco-Ebin/p/book/9780367754044.

Under Review and Manuscripts in Preparation

• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Gender, Global Governance and Security. Chapter for the Handbook on Gender and Global Governance, eds: Maryam Khalid and Penny Griffin (accepted November 2024). Under Review.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. A typology to measure gender-based needs, with Valentina Nerino, Milin Zhang, Leandra Bias and Michèle Amacker (submitted February 2025). Under Review.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. From differentiation to cooperation – Dynamics of change in the UN’s inter-institutional governance of terrorism and violent extremism (R&R submitted March 2025). Under Review.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Evidence-based misogyny in a post-factual world - tracing the changing role of pseudo-science in the development of the Manosphere, with Wyn Brodersen (submission planned 2025).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Twisting radicality - how far-right populists twist the 'radical' project of feminism, with Valentina Nerino and Giuseppe Carteny (presentation at CES 2024, DVPW 2025, submission planned 2025).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. The promise of failure and the danger of digging in the boots – conceptualizing moments of disillusionment and failure as innocuous spaces for a widening or narrowing of gender regimes, with Megan Kelly, (presentation at workshop 2024, planned ECPR & EWIS 2025, submission planned 2025).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Unveiling Gender-Based Needs: A Mixed-method, Multi-dimensional Analysis of Feminist Literature, with Valentina Nerino (presentation planned at ECPG 2024, submission planned 2025).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Innocuous Spaces – using the category of space to understand radicalization and resistance through gender essentialisms, with David Meier-Arendt, Luise Bendfeldt, Megan Kelly and Catherine Tebaldi, (presentation 2025, submission planned 2025).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Intrinsic and/or instrumental? Assessing the Interaction between Gender and Radicality in Far-Right Discourse, with Valentina Nerino and Anita Tomanic, (presentation 2025, submission planned 2026).
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Forthcoming. Male Supremacism and the Far Right: Media, Mainstreaming, and Mobilization, with Greta Jasser and Catherine Baker, (invited Chapter to edited volume on Gender and Far-Right, publication planned 2026).

Policy Papers, Book Reviews, and Other Articles

• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. Male Supremacism, Antifeminismus und die Far Right, InfoPool Rechtsextremismus, Online resource of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), with Greta Jasser, 16 April 2025, available at: https://www.bpb.de/themen/rechtsextremismus/infopool-rechtsextremismus/561383/male-supremacism-antifeminismus-und-die-far-right/.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. The politics of fear: Right-wing anti-gender and anti-vaccination narratives. WIIS Blog, 20 April 2022, available at: https://wiisglobal.org/the-politics-of-fear-right-wing-anti-gender-and-anti-vaccination-narratives/.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. What anti-gender and anti-vaccines politics have in common – the construction of gender and the Covid-19 pandemic in right-wing discourses, LSE Engenderings, 11 April 2022, available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2022/04/11/what-anti-gender-and-anti-vaccines-politics-have-in-common-the-construction-of-gender-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-right-wing-discourses/.
• Rothermel, Ann-Kathrin. From Victims to Activists: Women‘s Engagement and Participation in P/CVE, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 8 March 2022, with Doris Asante, available at: https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/from-victims-to-activists-womens-engagement-and-participation-in-p-cve/.
• Rothermel, A., Jasser, G. & Kelly, M. 2020, 'Male supremacism and  the Hanau terrorist attack: between online misogyny and far-right  violence', ICCT Publications, 20 May 2020, The Hague: International  Center for Counterterrorism. Available from: https://icct.nl/publication/male-supremacism-and-hanau-terrorist-attack-between-online-misogyny-and-far-right.
• Rothermel, A. 2017, 'Sexuelle Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten', review of „Protection, Prevention, Prosecution“: Die Vereinten Nationen und der völkerrechtlicher Schutz der Frauen vor sexueller Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten, by Mirau-Gondoin, E. (2016, Frankfurt: Peter Lang). Vereinte Nationen, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 140.
• Rothermel, A. 2017, review of Die Aktivistinnen der Hamas. Zur Rolle der Frauen in einer islamistischen Bewegung, by Ziolkowski, B. (2017, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag). WeltTrends, vol. 129 (Juli 2017), pp. 62-63.
• Rothermel, A. 2016, ' "We would like to ask the NGO...", An assessment of the current working practices of the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs', NGO Branch, Office of ECOSOC Support and Coordination, United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Available from: http://csonet.org/index.php?menu=119.
• Rothermel, A. 2014, 'Civil Society conceptions in the Kyrgyz Republic. An explorative analysis of the influence of a hegemonic discourse on the structure of and power distribution in the Kyrgyz civil society', Conference Paper at the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) Conference 'Prospects of EU-Central Asian Relations',  August 28-29, 2014, Almaty, Kazakhstan.