Academic career

• 2012 - 2016: M.A. studies in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
  Topic of master thesis: Between collective territorial rights and struggles for land. A comparative study on the situation of comunidades negras in Colombia and comunidades quilombolas in Brazil.
• 2014 - 2015: Field studies in Colombia and Brazil
• 2008 - 2011: B.A. studies in Latin American Studies, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2010: Exchange student at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, in Cali/Colombia

Publication

Dittrich, Elisabeth / Rühl, Janina (2015): Derecho, identidad y territorio: El caso de las comunidades afrodescendientes desplazadas del Cacarica (Colombia) ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, in: Góngora-Mera, Manuel; Costa, Sérgio; Gonçalves, Guilherme Leite (eds.): Derecho en América Latina: "¿Corrector o (re-)productor de desigualdades sociales?", desiguALdades.net Working Paper Series 81, Berlin: desiguALdades.net Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America, 91-119.