Eleonora Roldán Mendívil

Profile

Political scientist, political educator and journalist. Doctoral candidate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Department of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Kassel. PhD topic is Gender and 'race' in modern capitalism. Towards a Marxist Methodology with Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai.

Scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2010/04-2017/03) and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation (2022/04-2026/03). My pedagogical focus is on interdisciplinary work on racism, sexism, social origin/class, self-empowerment of marginalized communities, and historical education on the 19th and 20th centuries. My research interests include migration studies, postcolonial studies, racism studies, gender studies, Marxist theory, international political theory, and international relations.

Academic Career: 

2020/11-present: PhD student at the Department of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, Supervision: Prof. Dr. Aram Ziai, University of Kassel
2014/10-2017/09: M.A. Political Science, Focus: International Political Theory, University of Hamburg, Germany, Degree: M.A.
2012/10-2014/03: B.A. Political Science; Free University of Berlin, Degree: B.A.
2009/10-2012/09: B.A. Politics/Administration & English/U.S. American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany

 

Research abroad

October 2025–February 2026
Visiting researcher, European and International Studies, King’s College, University of London, United Kingdom
May–August 2024
Visiting scholar, Center for Sociological, Economic, Political, and Anthropological Research, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
February–April 2024
Visiting scholar, International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 

 

Research, Teaching, and Education Activities

Summer Semester 2026: Lecturer, Racial Capitalism (M.A.), Institute for International Development, University of Vienna

Summer Semester 2022: Lecturer, Anti-Colonialism and Identity, Studium Fundamentale (B.A./M.A.), Witten-Herdecke University

Summer Semester 2022: Lecturer, Anti-Racism as Daily Practice (B.A./M.A.), Chair of Peace Research and Education, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria

May 2021 – May 2022: Education Officer / Research Assistant, Temporary Exhibitions, Education and Outreach, German Historical Museum Foundation, Berlin

Winter semester 2021/2022: Lecturer, The Haitian Revolution and the Question of Universal History (M.A.), Institute for International Development, University of Wien

Summer Semester 2021: Lecturer, Seminar: Social Change and Social Differentiation (B.A.), Faculty of Social Work, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

Summer Semester 2021: Lecturer, Intersectionality from a Materialist Perspective (M.A.), Institute for International Development, University of Vienna 

Summer Semester 2021: Lecturer, Class, Gender, and “Race” (B.A.), Chair of Political Theory, University of Potsdam

Summer Semester 2021: Organization and delivery of the open online lecture series: “The ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in Political Theory,” Chair of Political Theory, University of Potsdam
 

Fall 2020/2021: Lecturer, Introduction to Theories of Racism (B.A.), Chair of Development Policy and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel
 

Jan 2020–Dec 2020: Project Coordinator for Non-Discriminatory Education in Wedding and collaboration on Global Learning, NARUD e.V., Berlin
 

Fall 2016/2017: Lecturer, Racism in Capitalism (B.A.), Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
 

Publications (Selected)

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (eds.), Daniele Puccio (trans.) (2025): The Diversity of Exploitation. On the Critique of Dominant Antiracism, Haymarket, Chicago/London.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora (2025): Imperialism and Super-Exploitation: Situating Migration and Racism within the German Political Economy, in Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, Volume XXXXI, Issue 1, pp. 112–133.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora (2025): Racial Capitalism, Geschlecht und “Rasse.” Konzeptuelle Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, in: Peripherie, No. 176, pp. 483–500.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora (2024): Super-Exploitation and Social Reproduction. Situating Gender and “Race” in Modern German Capitalism, in Work in Progress. Work on Progress, VSA Verlag Berlin, pp. 103–116.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (eds.), Daniele Puccio (trans.) (2024): The Diversity of Exploitation. On the Critique of Dominant Antiracism, Brill, Leiden.

Puder, Janina, Eleonora Roldán Mendívil & Bafta Sarbo (2024): Überausbeutung. Ein begriffshistorischer und konzeptioneller Überblick, in: Zeitschrift Z – Marxistische Erneuerung, No. 138, pp. 15–29.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (eds.) (2022): Die Diversität der Ausbeutung. Zur Kritik des herrschenden Antirassismus, Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin. 

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (2021): Rassismus, Identität und Marxismus. Eine Intervention in die deutschsprachige Debatte, in: Zeitschrift Z – Marxistische Erneuerung, No. 126, pp. 61–71.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (2021): Materialistischer Antirassismus - zurück zu den Wurzeln, with Bafta Sarbo, in Dellheim, Judith, Alex Demirović, Katharina Pühl, Thomas Sablowski, and Ingar Solty (eds.): Auf den Schultern von Karl Marx, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, pp. 297–310.

Roldán Mendívil, Eleonora & Bafta Sarbo (2020): Klasse und „Rasse“ - Marxismus und Identitätspolitik heute in Deutschland, in: Chlada, Marvin et al. (eds.): Entfremdung. Identität. Utopie, Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research, Unrast Verlag, Münster, pp. 118–131.