Dr. H.L. (Hanna) Muehlenhoff

Dr. H.L. (Hanna) Muehlenhoff is a Senior Lecturer of European Studies with a focus on 'Europe in the World' at the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Muehlenhoff previously held positions as a lecturer at the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam (2018–2020), as a lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at VU Amsterdam (2017–2018), and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS Europe) (2016–2017). Dr. Muehlenhoff completed a PhD in 2015 at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, where they also worked as a PhD researcher and lecturer.

Dr. Muehlenhoff's research focuses on security, militarism, civil society funding, and activism in Europe, including the European Union, Turkey, Georgia, and the Netherlands. This work engages with feminist, queer, postcolonial, and Foucauldian perspectives. In this context, Dr. Muehlenhoff is also working on Feminist Foreign Policies, particularly in relation to the EU, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Between July 2022 and July 2024, Dr. Muehlenhoff served as co-chair of the Council of European Studies Gender and Sexuality Research Network. Currently, Dr. Muehlenhoff is a diversity advocate within the Capacity Group of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Muehlenhoff recently co-edited a special issue on ‘Gender, race and coloniality in European security policies’ for European Security. The book “EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality: Turkey and Beyond”, published by Routledge in March 2019 (Interventions series), explores how the neoliberal rationalities of EU funding (de)politicised human rights organisations in Turkey. The book particularly focuses on the agency of Turkish women's, LGBTQ, and human rights organisations working with EU grants, highlighting their resistance and/or co-optation.