Humboldt Research Fellow from the U.S.

Portrait von Meridith LaVelle. Sie trägt ein dunkles Jacket und hat halblange, dunkelblonde Haare.

In October, a new Humboldt Research Fellow has joined the University of Mannheim. Over the next two years, Dr. Meridith LaVelle will be conducting research at the chair of Professor Sabine Carey on human rights, political violence, and the right to privacy.

In 2023, Mannheim political scientist Professor Sabine Carey, Ph.D., received approval from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to select up to three international researchers for a fellowship and thereby expand her team. Following Elena Barham, Ph.D., the second postdoctoral researcher from the United States has now joined the chair: Meridith LaVelle, Ph.D., moved from the University of Georgia to Mannheim in October 2025 and will be part of Carey’s team until September 2027.

Dr. LaVelle, aged 35, focuses on human rights and political violence, with particular attention to how technology is used to violate human rights. The core of her new project is the right to privacy, a subject that has so far received little systematic attention in political science.

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