Dr. Bettina Bruns

Bettina Bruns is a senior researcher and vice coordinator of the research group “Geographies of Belonging and Difference” at IfL where she studies the paramilitary production of security in local social contexts in Poland.

Bettina Bruns studied cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), the Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, and the Uniwersytet Wrocławski in Poland. She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. Bruns held positions as research assistant at the Institute for Applied Research for Family, Children and Youth at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute for World Society Studies at the University of Bielefeld.