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In September 2023, I was honoured to receive the from the .  This recognition has provided me with the opportunity to engage deeply with the renowned , beginning with my tenure as an Emma Goldman Fellow in October 2024.

More recently, in March 2025, I participated in the organized by the IWM, alongside fellow Emma Goldman Awardees, including my colleague and Mitchell Institute Fellow: Legacy, .

Founded in 1982, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) serves as a unique platform for intellectual engagement, fostering dialogue between dissenting thinkers from Eastern Europe and leading scholars from the West.

As an independent institute dedicated to advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences, it seeks to promote interdisciplinary exchange, encouraging collaboration between scholars from the Global North, South, and East.  The IWM plays a pivotal role in reframing complex academic and public debates.

As part of my Emma Goldman Fellowship, I had the privilege of delivering a seminar titled "  This seminar allowed me to share my early research on the No Border Movement in Italy during the late 1990s and early 2000s.  I argue that the movement envisioned a borderless future, aligning with, and in some ways anticipating, contemporary abolitionist positions on border violence.  I also connect this vision to the European abolitionist tradition within critical criminology.  The seminar, in keeping with the IWM’s tradition, was attended by fellows from diverse fields such as journalism, translation of literary and philosophical works, history, and social sciences.  I was fortunate to have , a renowned anthropologist from the University of Vienna, as my discussant.  The fellowship was a valuable opportunity for interdisciplinary academic exchange, offering me the time and space to focus on my project outside of my usual teaching and administrative responsibilities.  I am deeply grateful to the Flax Foundation and to , the Director of IWM, for making this experience possible.  I also want to express my appreciation for the exceptional staff at the IWM.  I highly recommend the Institute as an ideal place for research, and Vienna as a city of progressive culture, rich history, multiple museums, and vibrant intellectual engagement.

Presenting at the IWM has not only provided valuable contacts and insights for my ongoing research on the No Border Movement in Italy, but it has also informed my forthcoming edited collection with , Detention and deportation in Europe: Analyses, contestations, and radical visions in the aftermath of Covid-19.

This collection, which I co-edited with (Gothenburg University) and , (Bologna University and Border Criminologies, Oxford University) examines recent developments in immigration detention across Europe and the ongoing efforts to abolish these practices. It draws from both academic research and activist perspectives, and includes poetry written by individuals with lived experience of immigration detention.  It will be out in early 2026.

The Emma Goldman Visiting Fellowships, named after international anarchist, writer and lecturer Emma Goldman (1869–1940), are a collaboration between the IWM and the FLAX Foundation.  Every academic year, the FLAX Foundation will issue awards to talented and engaged scholars of feminist and inequality issues in Europe, to support their research and development, between 2020 and 2025.  Two researchers among the Emma Goldman awardees will then be chosen to be awarded the Emma Goldman Visiting Fellowships, which are hosted by the IWM.

 

Dr Teresa Degenhardt 

Dr Degenhardt is a criminologist and a Mitchell Institute Fellow: The Politics and Security of Institutional Peacebuilding at Queen’s University Belfast.  She works at the intersection between criminology and international relations. Teresa received the Emma Goldman Award by the Flax Foundation in 2023. Her book War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at ‘The End of History’ was published by Routledge (2023).