Cheyenne Wolf

Cheyenne Wolf

Research Assistant/PhD Candidate

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Transformation and Participation

Portrait Cheyenne Wolf, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Team A1

CV

From 07/2024

Research Associate and PhD Candidate in the JTC A1 Team “Structural Change and Participation”

10/2020 – 03/2024

Master of Science, International Area Studies, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Master’s thesis: Between Drive and Paralysis – How Fear Shapes Climate Justice Activism

Certificate in Gender Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in cooperation with genderbildet*

05/2022 – 03/2024

Student Research Assistant at the Seminar for Ethnology and at the HALIS Institute, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

10/2016 – 03/2020

Bachelor of Arts, Culture and Society (Sociology and Social & Cultural Anthropology), University of Bayreuth

Bachelor’s thesis: Unfree in Free Love?! The Role of Women in Hippie Communes in the USA in the 1960s and 1970s

04/2019 – 03/2020

Student Research Assistant at the Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bayreuth

Projects

 

When Engagement Shapes Transformation: “Revierpionier” and Local Engagement in Structural Change – Opportunities, Limits, and Tensions

How can local, volunteer-based engagement drive societal transformation and strengthen social cohesion in a region undergoing structural change—and where does it encounter structural limits?

Stories of Transformation, Spaces of Possibility: Participatory Approaches to Exploring Experiences of Change and Future Imaginaries in Wolfen-Nord

This participatory knowledge-transfer project develops innovative formats at the interface of research and practice. It addresses a central question: How can diverse experiences of transformation be made visible and brought into dialogue—and how might these conversations generate ideas for socially just, ecological, and democratic urban and neighbourhood development?

Ambiguous Liminalities – Emotional Attachments and Socially Contested Potentials of Vacant Spaces in a Structural Change Region

What happens to buildings that are no longer in use—yet have not disappeared? In regions undergoing structural transformation, vacancy is more than mere dereliction or a promise of capital accumulation: it constitutes an emotional, social, and political in-between. This project explores the ambivalent potentials of such spaces, situated between memory, appropriation, and exclusion.

Contact

Cheyenne Wolf

Research Assistant/PhD Candidate

Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 4
06120 Halle (Saale)

 

Mail cheyenne.wolf@strukturwandel.uni-halle.de
Room H4 2.41.1