Karenine Lucas (She/Her)Visiting Graduate Student from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2024)

Karenine Lucas (she/her) studied for a Bachelor’s in North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. 

Her final BA thesis examined the removal of the unhoused population from public spaces, thereby focusing on the intersection of race, space, and class in the context of neoliberal policy-making. 

As a current North American Studies Master’s student, with a major in Sociology and Political Science, Karenine has an interdisciplinary interest in race and hierarchy in the historical and contemporary international system, policing practices and the racialized division of global labor. With view to the future, she is interested in questions that consider possibilities to dismantle neocolonial structures, informed by abolitionist feminism and the transformative potential of social movements. 

As a communications assistant, Karenine has acquired knowledge from the migrant and refugee led grassroots organization International Women* Space in Berlin. During her time as a student research assistant at the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa) of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) in Berlin, Karenine has engaged with political communication and media coverage about racism in Germany.