Academic staff member

After vocational training as a paramedic, Paul Hummel first studied at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and during an Erasmus stay at the Université de la Réunion in France. He completed his two combined bachelor’s programs in the subjects of Geography & Sports Science (Poly-B.Sc.) and Political Science (B.Sc.) in August 2020 with a human geography bachelor’s thesis on the connections between Orientalism and tourist photography in Tangier, Morocco.

He then completed the English-language degree program “Human Geography: Globalization, Media and Culture” (M.A.) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. For his master’s thesis, he dealt with questions at the interface between political/indigenous identity and music of the P’urhépecha in Mexico, for which he made the documentary Raíces y Brotes (2023) through practical film approaches to geography. After two years working for the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the French-speaking Africa portfolio (InS), he has been working as a doctoral candidate and academic staff member in the Human Geography work group since October 2023.