Benjamin Etzold

Dr Etzold studied geography, sociology, political science and development studies at universities in Stuttgart, Adelaide and Bonn. He worked at Bonn University’s Geography Department from 2007 to 2016 and obtained his PhD there in 2012 with the study ‘The Politics of Street Food’ in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He joined bicc in 2016. Since then, he took on temporary positions as lecturer at the University of Vienna (2020) and as guest professor at Free University Berlin (2020-21) and University of Innsbruck (2023). Since 2024, he is affiliated researcher at the BCDSS. He led multiple international research projects such as the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project ‘Transnational Figurations of Displacement’ (TRAFIG, 2019-22) and the study ‘Mobility, Translocality and Gendered Violence in the Bangladesh-Myanmar Borderlands’ funded by UK International Development within the XCEPT program (2024-25). He also conducted research in Kenya in the Caritas-funded project ‘Food Security and Conflict Dynamics in Northern Kenya’ (2022-2023) and led the Bangladesh case study in the United Nations’ University and CARE project ‘Where the Rain falls – Climate Change, Hunger and Human Mobility’ (2011-12). From 2016 to 2025, he contributed to the BMBF-funded collaborative project ‘Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer’ (FFVT) and its predecessor project (FFT).