Stephan Scheel

Stephan Scheel is post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project ARITHMUS. Starting from the premise that scientific methods help to bring into being the very phenomena they are meant to describe, a team of 6 researchers studies methodological changes in population statistics in order to investigate how these changes affect the enactment of populations as intelligible objects of government. Before joining the ARITHMUS project, Stephan completed his PhD in Political Science at the Open University in Milton Keynes (UK).

His doctoral thesis has been awarded the Michael Nicholson Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) in 2015. It investigates how migrants appropriate mobility in the context of biometric border controls in order to demonstrate the persistence of moments of autonomy of migration in technologically ever more sophisticated border regimes.

This work will be published by Routledge in the book series Interventions in 2017. In general, Stephan’s research interests lie at the intersection of border and migration studies, citizenship studies, critical security studies and science and technology studies. So far, Stephan has published his research in Cultural Studies, Millennium – Journal for International Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Movements and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.