Dr S.P. Ruth-Lovell (Saskia)

Saskia Ruth-Lovell is an Associate Professor of Resilient Democracy at the Department of Political Science. In her research she focuses on the impact of clientelism and populism on different facets of representative democracy in Latin America and beyond.

She holds a Diploma in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cologne (Germany). Between 2013 and 2019 she worked as a Postdoc at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and as a Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institute of Latin America Studies, in Hamburg (Germany). In the winter term 2018/2019 she was an interim professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt (‘Vertretungsprofessur’ for Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel).