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Professor Dr. Sarah Ruth Sippel

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of human geography with specialisation in economic geography and globalisation research (Prof. Sippel)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • critical agrarian & agri-food studies
  • farmland investments and financialization of nature
  • finance, agri-food tech, and R&D of digital farming technologies
  • sustainable livelihoods, labour, and migration
  • diverse economic practices and alternative futures
  • regional focus: Mediterranean (Morocco, Italy), Australia, US (California)

Academic Education

01/2013 - 10/2020Habilitation in Geography (Dr. phil. habil.), Institute of Geography, Leipzig University
04/2007 - 02/2012PhD in Geography (Dr. phil.), Institute of Geography, Leipzig University
04/2001 - 03/2007Magister Artium, Middle Eastern Studies and Philosophy, Oriental Institute/Institute of Philosophy, Leipzig University
10/2004 - 03/2005Undergraduate Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence

Work Experience

since 01/2016Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1199 ‘Processes of Spatialization Under the Global Condition’, Leipzig University
01/2016 - 12/2022Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Social Science, University of Queensland
06/2016 - 06/2022Lecturer and Principal Investigator, Institute of Cultural Anthropology/Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1199 ‘Processes of Spatialization Under the Global Condition’, University of Leipzig
10/2018 - 03/2019Guest Professor, Institute of Geography and Regional Science, University of Graz
01/2017Visiting Academic, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
04/2010 - 05/2016Senior Researcher, Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University
11/2011 - 07/2012Visiting Academic & DAAD Short-term Lecturer, University of Queensland, Brisbane
04/2007 - 03/2010PhD Candidate, DFG Research Training Group 1261 ‘Critical Junctures of Globalization’, University of Leipzig

Publications

Infrastructures of farmland valuation in Australia
Sippel, Sarah Ruth (2023)
In: Ethnos, 2023.
Research article (journal)
Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization
Sippel, Sarah Ruth (2023)
In: Agriculture and Human Values, 2023.
Research article (journal)
Cultivating intellectual community in academia: reflections from the Science and Technology Studies Food and Agriculture Network (STSFAN)
Burch, Karly; Gugganig, Mascha; Guthman, Julie; Reisman, Emily; Comi, Matt; Brock, Samara; Kagliwal, Barkha; Freidberg, Susanne; Baur, Patrick; Heimstädt, Cornelius; Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Speakman, Kelsey; Marquis, Sarah; Argüelles, Lucía; Biltekoff, Charlotte; Broad, Garrett; Bronson, Kelly;·Faxon, Hilary; Frohlich, Xaq; Ghosh, Ritwick; Halfon, Saul; Legun, Katharine; Martin, Sarah J. (2023)
In: Agriculture and Human Values, 2023.
Research article (journal)
Finanzialisierung von Landwirtschaft sichtbar machen? Zum reflexiven und epistemischen Potential experimenteller Visualisierung
Sippel, Sarah Ruth; Bauer Lea (2022)
Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.
Working paper
Agri-investment cashing in on COVID-19
Sippel, Sarah Ruth (2022)
In: Stead, Victoria; Hinkson, Melinda (eds.), Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Research article (book contribution)
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Projects

SFB 1199 - SP C04: Reimaginations of Land and Agriculture in the Context of Digitization
Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2023 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted outside University of Münster
Land imaginations: the repositioning of farming, productivity, and sovereignty in Australia
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2019
Funded by: DFG - Collaborative Research Centre
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster