Professional Career

• Since February 2014: Assistant professor for political science with main focus on Latin America, Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin

• 2010-2013: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig

• 2009: Doctoral thesis in politcal science, Free University of Berlin

• 2005-2010: Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood", Free University of Berlin, Research Project C3 "Public security as governance? Policing in transitional and developing countries"

• 2004: Diplom (equiv. to M. Sc.) in political science, Free University of Berlin

• 1997-2004: Political science and sociology studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin

Scholarships and Awards

• 2012: Friedrich Katz Dissertation Prize by the Institute for Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin

• 2005: Doctoral Scholarship of the federal state Berlin (NaFög), return because of entrance into the SFB research project
  

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Research interests

• Policing

• Theories of the State

• Postcolonial Theory

• Urban Development

• Informal Politics

• Political development in Latin America

Books

• The Punitive City: Privatised Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico. London: Zed Books (2016). http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo23369621.html

• Public Security in the Negotiated State. Policing in Latin America and Beyond. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012). http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=498335

Edited Journal Special Issues

• Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the "Local Turn" in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2017) (with Louise Wiuff Moe). http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137588760

• The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives. London: Routledge (2016) (with Jana Hönke). http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138910201

• The Rebirth of the Prison in Latin America. In Crime, Law & Social Change 65/3 (2016) (with Paul Hathazy). http://link.springer.com/journal/10611/65/3/page/1

• Polizei und (post-)koloniales Regieren. In Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 22/3, (2012). http://www.comparativ.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=29

• Governing (In)Security in a Postcolonial World. In Security Dialogue 43/5, (2012) (with Jana Hönke). http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/43/5.toc

• Spaces of Insecurity. Security Governance in Latin America Revisited. In Iberoamericana11/41, 2011, (with Anja Feth). http://www.iai.spk-berlin.de/fileadmin/dokumentenbibliothek/Iberoamericana/41-2011/41-_Feth_and_Mueller.pdf

Journal Article

• „From Regime Protection to Urban Resilience? Assessing Continuity and Change in Transnational Security Governance Rationales in Guatemala“. In Geoforum (forthcoming) (with Markus Hochmüller). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718517300039
• „The Rebirth of the Prison in Latin America: Determinants, Regimes and Social Effects“. In Crime, Law & Social Change 65/3 (2016), 113-135 (with Paul Hathazy). http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-015-9580-8

• „Penalizing Democracy: Punitive Politics in Neoliberal Mexico“. In Crime, Law & Social Change 65/3 (2016), 227-249. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-015-9582-6

• „Im- und Export von Aufstandsbekämpfung: Von Rio de Janeiro nach Port-au-Prince und zurück“. In Peripherie. Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 36/1 (2016): 74-93 (with Frank Müller). http://budrich-journals.de/index.php/peripherie/article/view/22902

• „Locating Guatemala in Global Counterinsurgency“. In Globalizations 13/1 (2016), 94-109 (with Markus Hochmüller). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14747731.2015.1050850#.VYBQZUbChzY

• „Resilience as Warfare: Interventions and the Militarization of the Social in Haiti and Somalia". In Kriminologisches Journal 47/4 (2015), 279-296 (with Louise Wiuff Moe). https://content-select.com/portal/media/view/56407c16-96b4-4c17-bf52-5ebbb0dd2d03

• „Punitive Entanglements: The 'War on Gangs' and the Making of a Transnational Penal Apparatus in the Americas“. In Geopolitics 20/3 (2015), 696-727. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2015.1036416

• „Polizieren als (post-)koloniale Praxis: Einsichten für eine kritische Polizeiforschung“. In sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 2/2 (2014), 65-70. http://www.zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/issue/view/2

• „De-Monopolizing the Bureaucratic Field: Internationalization Strategies and the Transnationalization of Security Governance in Mexico City“. In Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 39/1 (2014), 37-54. http://alt.sagepub.com/content/39/1/37.full.pdf+html

• „Encountering Knowledge Production: The International Crisis Group and the Making of Mexico's Security Crisis“. In Third World Quarterly 35/4 (2014), 705-722 (with Markus Hochmüller). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01436597.2014.924069

• „Penal Statecraft in the Latin American City: Assessing Mexico City's Punitive Urban Democracy“. In Social & Legal Studies 22/4 (2013), 441-463. http://sls.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/09/0964663913482932.

• „Postcolonial Bureaucracies: Power and Public Administration in 'Most of the World' “. In Postcolonial Studies 16/2 (2013), 233-242 (review essay). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2013.815146#.UlgjoBAmHqE

• „‘Public’ Security and Patron-Client Exchanges in Latin America“. In Government & Opposition 48/4 (2013), 548-569. http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0017257X1300002X

• „The Securitization of Urban Space and the ‘Rescue’ of Downtown Mexico City: Vision and Practice“. In Latin American Perspectives 40/2 (2013), 77-94 (with Anne Becker). http://lap.sagepub.com/content/40/2/77

• „Governing (In)Security in a Postcolonial World. Transnational Entanglements and the Worldliness of ‘Local’ Practice“. In Security Dialogue 43/5 (2012), 383-401 (with Jana Hönke). http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/43/5/383.abstract

• „Polizei und (post-)koloniales Regieren. Eine Einleitung". In Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 22/3, (2012), 9-16. http://www.comparativ.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=29

• „Transformaciones del clientelismo: Democratización, (in)seguridad y políticas urbanas en el Distrito Federal“. In Foro Internacional 52/4, (2012), 836-863. http://biblioteca.colmex.mx/revistas/xserver/index.php

• „Addressing an Ambivalent Relationship: Policing and the Urban Poor in Mexico City“. In Journal of Latin American Studies 44/2, (2012), 319-345. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8599727

• „The Rise of the Penal State in Latin America“. In Contemporary Justice Review 15/1 (2012), 57-76. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10282580.2011.590282

• „Private Security and the State in Latin America: The Case of Mexico City“. In Brazilian Political Science Review, 4/1, (2010), 131-154. http://www.bpsr.org.br/revistas/index.php/bpsr/article/view/91

• „Community Policing in Latin America: Lessons from Mexico City“. In European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 88, (2010), 21-37. http://www.cedla.uva.nl/50_publications/pdf/revista/88RevistaEuropea/88-MULLER-ISSN-0924-0608.pdf

• „Wenn ‘Null Toleranz’ und ‘Zerbrochene Fensterscheiben’ auf Reisen gehen: Globalisierung und die Restrukturierung des historischen Zentrums in Mexiko Stadt“. In Kriminologisches Journal 41/2, (2009), 82-99. http://www.juventa.de/zeitschriften/kriminologisches_journal/abstracts/Jahrgang2009/04200902082.html

• „Regieren durch (Un)Sicherheit? Die Rolle der Polizei im Kontext beschränkter Staatlichkeit in Mexiko“. In Peripherie Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt 104, 2006, 500-522. http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~cas/images/stories/Dokumente/mueller_regierenperipherie1.pdf

Book Chapter

• „The Clientelist Bases of Police Violence in Democratic Mexico City“. In Hilgers, Tina/Macdonald, Laura (eds.), Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networks. New York: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

• „Transformation von Staatlichkeit und Souveränität in Mexikos Drogenkrieg“. In Gunsenheimer, Antje/Wehrheim, Monika (eds.), Narcotráfico y narcocultura en América Latina - Drogenhandel und "Drogenkultur" in Lateinamerika. Bonn: Bonn University Press (forthcoming).

• „Introduction: Complexity, Resilience and the “Local Turn” in Counterinsurgency“. In Moe, Louise W./Müller, Markus-Michael (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the "Local Turn" in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2017) (with Louise Wiuff Moe).

• „Countering Criminal Insurgencies: Fighting Gangs and Building Resilient Communities in Post-War Guatemala“. In Moe, Louise W./Müller, Markus-Michael (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the "Local Turn" in Counterinsurgent Warfare. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2017) (with Markus Hochmüller).

• „The Global Making of Policing“. In Hönke, Jana/Müller, Markus-Michael (eds.), The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives. London: Routledge (2016), 1-20.

• „Entangled Pacifications: Peacekeeping, Counterinsurgency and Policing in Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro“. In Hönke, Jana/Müller, Markus-Michael (eds.), The Global Making of Policing: Postcolonial Perspectives. London: Routledge (2016), 77-95. 

• „Security Assemblages at the Margins of Mexico City“. In  Albrecht, Peter/Kyed, Helene Maria (eds.), Policing and the Politics of Order-Making. London: Routledge (2014), 108-126.

• „Populistische Staatsgewalt? Staatszentralisierung in Brasilien unter Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945).“ In Hochmüller, Markus et al. (eds.), Politik in verflochtenen Räumen/Los espacios entrelazados de lo político. Festschrift für Marianne Braig. Berlin: Edition tranvía (2013), 326-346.

• „State Failure or State Formation? An African Perspective on Latin America's 'New Violence'.“ In Middell, Matthias (ed.), Self-Reflexive Area Studies. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (2013), 135-164.

• „Plural Policing in Mexiko.“ In Maihold, Günther/Brombacher, Daniel (eds.), Gewalt, organisierte Kriminalität und Staat in Lateinamerika. Saarbrücken: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2013), 355-370.

• „(Staats-)Gewalt und Souveränität bei Georges Bataille.“ In Riekenberg, Michael (ed.), Die Gewalttheorie von Georges Bataille, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag (2012), 151-176.

• „The Universal and the Particular in Latin American Penal State Formation.“ In Squires, Peter/Lea, John (eds.) Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality. Critically Exploring the Work of Loïc Wacquant, Bristol: Policy Press (2012), 195-216.

• „Citizen Participation and Crime Prevention in Latin America: The Problems Behind the Solution.“ In Braig, Marianne/Costa, Sergio/Kron, Stefanie (eds.), Democracias y Nuevas configuraciones del derecho en América Latina, Iberoamericana and Vervuert. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main (2012), 405-430.

• „El estado penal y el gobierno de la marginalidad en América Latina contemporánea.“ In González Sánchez, Ignacio (ed.), Teoría social, marginalidad urbana y Estado penal: aproximaciones al trabajo de Loïc Wacquant. Madrid: Dykinson (2012), 401-421.

• „Null Toleranz für Straßenprostitution? Altstadtaufwertung und die Kriminalisierung „unerwünschter“ informeller Ersatzökonomien in Mexiko Stadt.“ In Alfaro, Paola/Imilan, Walter/Sánchez, Lina María Sánchez (eds.), Lateinamerikanische Städte im Wandel. Zwischen lokaler Stadtgesellschaft und globalem Einfluss. Berlin: LIT Verlag (2011), 61-70.

• „Dezentralisierung, Demokratisierung und die Ambivalenz des Lokalen in Lateinamerika.“ In Birle, Peter (ed.), Lateinamerika im Wandel. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (2010), 41-58.

• „The Struggle over Human Rights in Mexico.“ In Hoffmann-Holland, Klaus (ed.), Ethics and Human Rights in a Globalized World. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck (2009), 43-62.

• „Raum, Herrschaft und die Produktion von (Un-)Sicherheit in Mexiko.“ In De la Rosa, Sybille, Höppner, Ulrike/Kötter, Matthias (eds.), Transdisziplinäre Governanceforschung. Gemeinsam hinter den Staat blicken. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft (2008), 58-79.

• „Fragmente des urbanen Regierens: Security Governance in Mexiko-Stadt.“ In Becker, Anne et al. (eds.), Verhandlungssache Mexiko-Stadt. Umkämpfte Räume, Stadtaneignungen und imaginarios urbanos. Berlin: b_books (2008), 131- 144.

• „Das politische System Mexikos“. In Stüwe, Klaus/Rinke, Stefan (eds.), Die politischen Systeme in den Amerikas. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (2008), 389-416 (with Marianne Braig).