Associated Research Groups

Ulrike Gerhard holds a bridge chair that partly resides at the Institute of Geography and partly at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA).

On the pages of the Geography working group at the SAI you will find information on the main research areas, research projects and studies.

Marcus Nüsser is head of the department Geography of South Asia at the South Asia Institute (SAI). On his profile page you'll find further informationen about his research interests, research projects and more.

Rosa Lehmann is a political ecologist, human geographer, and interdisciplinary researcher on socioenvironmental change and sustainable transformations. She holds a PhD in Political Science, a Master's in Anthropology and Political Science from Freiburg University, Germany and is a Junior Professor of “Innovation and Sustainability in Ibero-America” at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies in conjunction with the Department of Geography of Heidelberg's Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences and the Heidelberg Center for the Environment. Her research is situated in human geography, political ecology and interdisciplinary sustainability and energy studies, and focuses on changing sociospatial relations in times of triple planetary crises, new energy spaces and renewable frontiers, multiscalar conflicts around energy transitions and struggles around just socioecological transformations in urban and rural contexts with a regional focus on Chile, Mexico, and Germany.

Yaatsil Guevara González is an anthropologist and an ethnographer. She holds a PhD in Sociology, and a Master’s in Regional Studies. She is a Junior Professor of “Migration and the Americas” at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies in conjunction with the Department of Geography of Heidelberg’s of Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. Previously, she worked at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (Mainz), the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, and the Center for InterAmerican Studies (Bielefeld). She was also a fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies at the University of Costa Rica. Her research explores how migratory regimes impact and resonate in the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, as well as the spatial dimensions of irregularized migration. She also investigates the social processes occurring in the ‘in-between’ of irregularized cross-border mobility. The regional focus of her work is Central America, Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.