New Senior Resarchers with Asia-Focus at ABI

We warmly welcome our new employees Anas Ansar and Teresa Jopson to the ABI. 
With them as valuable additions to the ABI, the ABI's regional focus on Asia will be strengthened.

Anas Ansar researches narratives of conflict and displacement in the Asian context centering the borderland and frontier dynamics. As an expert on identities in border regions, migration, gender and intersectionality, his interest lays in the patchwork of social networks, permeable and ambivalent frontier identity, complex ethnic and religious composition, and persistent cross-border mobility in the Gulf States, South and Southeast Asia. In 2024, Anas Ansar recieved his PhD in Migration and Development Studies from the University of Bonn. Currently, he is associate researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) and at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IOA).

Teresa Jopson focuses on the topics gender, human rights, and health in conflict, peacebuilding, and urban migration as well as governance and the ‘war on drugs’. Her regional focus is on Southeast Asia. Teresa Jopson received her PhD in Political and Social Change from the Australian National University in 2021 and has worked as a research assistant in the Department of War Studies and Military History of the Swedish Defence University and as guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural, Social and Educational Sciences of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at HU, Berlin. She is Gender and human rights expert in the Regional Validation Advisory Group on Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis and Accelerated Control of Viral Hepatitis in the Western Pacific Region at the WHO.

We are particularly excited that the new members of staff will be supporting the editorial team of our journal International Quarterly for Asian Studies (IQAS). Published by the ABI, IQAS is an important peer-reviewed open access journal for Asian studies. It provides a forum for multidisciplinary research on current and historical topics relevant to politics, economics and society in contemporary Asia. It seeks to make the results of social science research on Asia known to a broader public discourse about Asia. The contributions are intended for a public aware that the world's regions and cultures have always been interlinked and, thus, need to be understood in relation to one another. The current issue can be found on the website of IQAS.