Sarah Klosterkamp

Feminist urban and political geographer. She studied geography, German studies, education and political science at the Universities of Münster, Leipzig and Houston, USA. Since January 2024 she is part of the working group Geographical Housing Research at the Institute of Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt. Previously, she worked at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bonn (2020-2023) and at the Institute of Geography at the University of Münster (2015-2020), where she worked on her dissertation on geographies of security in the context of state protection processes against German Syrian returnees and Syrian refugees.

In addition to questions of urban and legal geography, she is interested in feminist methods and methodologies as well as new forms of data visualization and story mapping. Since December 2019 she has been spokesperson for the German-speaking working group “Feminist Geographies”, since April 2024 Chair of the Legal Geography Speciality Group of the American Association of Geographers of the USA.

At the Institute of Human Geography at the University of Frankfurt, she is working on the DFG project “Evicted – Logics, Practices and Vulnerabilities in the Context of Evictions in Times of Multiple Crisis” (2024-2026). The aim of the project is to trace the housing industry contexts of evictions and rent reductions. To this end, it enters the spectator areas of German district courts, which conduct proceedings on tenancy disputes and issue eviction orders on a daily basis.