New Associate Professors at ISS

Natascha Wagner just realized her tenure track agreement.

Her research interests are:

• International economics
• Development
• Health

Natscha Wagner has been involved in several impact evaluation projects in Africa and Asia, and more recently an impact assessment of the long-term effects of quality improvements in Philippine public hospitals. She also teaches econometrics and development microeconomics at ISS.

Roy Huijsmans was successful in the 2018 internal UHD promotion round.

He teaches several courses at ISS, some of his research interest are:

• State-child/youth relations in post-socialist contexts
• Rural childhood & youth and agrarian transformations
• Family and household studies
• Conceptualising age and generation
• Work and education
• Youth and mobile/digital technology

Rosalba Icaza was successful in the 2018 internal UHD promotion round.

In addition to teaching at ISS, her research interests are:

• Decolonial thinking and 'the international'
• Thinking the academia in the promotion of autonomy
• Learning as liberation/liberation of learning
• Plural feminisms for plural liberations

She explains her research agenda as one that seeks to understand how place-based social resistances contribute to global epistemic justice. As a result, she is not circumscribed to a particular discipline anymore and her latest publications have had a variety of target audiences.

Karim Kniou was successful in the 2018 internal UHD promotion round.

Apart from teaching, Karim Kniou's research interests are:

• Institutional Analysis
• Varieties of Capitalism(s)
• Social Ontology
• Pedagogy of Crisis, Symptomatology and Learning
• Euro-Mediterranean Politics