Titel der Dissertation: Caring for the ‚Hapi Isles‘: Climate action and socio-ecological transformation in the Solomon Islands

• Feminist and participatory research methodologies
• Social Movements
• Youth Participation
• Gender Studies
• Development Studies

• Doctoral Researcher at University of Passau 
• Former Pre-Doctoral AUFF researcher at the School of Culture and Society (Aarhus University, Denmark; Autumn 2018)
• M.A., English Literature (University of Kalyani, 2011)

Upcoming Publication:

• Co-editing a volume on ‘queering urban spaces” (from Brill, tentative publication: November 2025)

Relevant Publications:

• Sarkar, Sanchali. 2024. Women and Wartime Sexual Violence: The ‘Comfort Women’ and the ‘Virangana’. Sagir Ali, Avijit Basak (Ed) Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature. Springer Nature
• Sarkar, Sanchali. 2019. Violence in Public Spaces: Security and Agency of Women in West Bengal. Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Anindya Sekhar Purkaystha (Ed) Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge India 
• Sarkar, Sanchali. 2018. Security and Agency of Women in the Hyper-Masculine Space of Local Trains in West Bengal. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium [Online], ISSN 2581-7361, Vo-2 (1) Peer reviewed

Working title: Travel Experiences of South Asian Women in Germany: An Intersectional Analysis

My research lies at the intersection of gender, mobility and migration with a particular focus on the South Asian diaspora in Germany.

PhD student, University of Passau (on going)

BA in Legal Studies, University of Indonesia

LLM in International Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

MA in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Passau, Germany

I am currently writing my dissertation on the conflict between the Ahmadiyya Qadiani community and other groups in Indonesia.

Anna Rosita Knöbl, known as Anna Knöbl, is the founder of the Ruanita Perempuan Indonesia Foundation (https://ruanita.com) and an author of two published books.