Personen/Associated Members

Short CV

  • Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp studied Geography, German Studies, and Political Science at the Universities of Münster, Leipzig, and Houston, USA.
  • Since January 2024, she has been part of the Urban Geography Research Group at Goethe University Frankfurt and is working on a research project on the judicial processing of evictions and termination of tenancy agreements at German local courts.
  • Previously, she worked at the Institute of Geography, University of Bonn (2020–2023), and at the University of Münster’s Institute of Geography (2015-2020), where she completed her dissertation on the geographies of hazard prevention in the context of state security processes.
  • Since 2019, she has been spokesperson for the working group ‘Feminist Geographies’, since 2024 spokesperson for the Legal Geography Speciality Group of the AAG, and since 2025 a member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Research focus

  • Housing Crisis
  • Evictions
  • De-Tenanting
  • Feminist Methodologies
  • Courtroom Ethnography

Recent projects

  • “Geographies of Debt: Law, Space, and Social Inequalities in the Context of Housing Crises“ (Fokus Grant for Early Career Postdocs, funded by Goethe University Frankfurt, 2025-2026)
  • “Evicted – Logics, Practices, and Vulnerabilities in the Context of Displacement Processes in Times of Multiple Crises” (Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2024–2026)
  • “Geographies of Social Inequality in Eviction Cases” (Argelander Starter-Kit Grant for Postdocs, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) & Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW) as part of the Excellence Initiative at the University of Bonn, 2021–2023)