• Lehrveranstaltungen

    AKTUELLE LEHRVERANSTALTUNGEN

    Sommersemester 2024

    • Bachelor: Migration und Zugehörigkeit in der Politischen Theorie
    • Master: Contemporary Democratic Theory

     

    Vergangene Lehrveranstaltungen

    Wintersemester 2023/24

    • Bachelor: Religion in Political Theory
    • Master: Recht und Rechtsmobilisierung in der Demokratietheorie

    Sommersemester 2023

    • Bachelor: Politische Theorie religiöser Pluralität
    • Master: Climate Crisis in Democratic Theory

    Wintersemester 2022/23

    • Bachelor: Theorien politischer Repräsentation: Klima, Umwelt, Tiere
    • Bachelor: Demokratie und Religion

     

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    CV

    10/2013 – 07/2018       PhD in Political Theory, University of Hamburg, Germany       

    10/2011 – 03/2014       M.A. Political Theory: Goethe-University Frankfurt and Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

    09/2012 – 09/2013       M.A. Legal and Political Theory: University College London, London, United Kingdom

    10/2008 – 09/2011       B.A. Political Science: Free University Berlin, Germany

     

    Positions and Visiting Affiliations

    Since 08/2022                 Assistant Professor in Political Theory, Institute of Political Science, University of Muenster

    08/2019 – 07/2022       Research Associate (postdoctoral) in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany

    09/2016 – 12/2016       Visiting PhD Student, Yale University, Political Science, New Haven, USA

    02/2016 – 04/2016       Visiting PhD Student, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    10/2013 – 07/2019       Research Associate (doctoral) in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Hamburg, Germany

     

    Research Interests

    • Political Theory
    • Democratic Theory
    • Politics and Religion
    • International Political Theory, Feminist and Critical Theory
    • Political Representation, Legitimate Institutions, Democratic Innovations
    • Law and Courts, Strategic Litigation
    • Citizenship, Membership, Migration, Asylum,
    • Political Representation in the Ecological Crisis, Animal Politics

     

    Publications

    Monograph

    2020: Die Grenzen des Demos. Mitgliedschaftspolitik aus postsouveräner Perspektive. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.  [The Boundaries of the Demos. A Postsovereign Perspective on Membership Politics]  

    Reviewed by:
    Schäfferle, Eva-Maria (2021): Politische Vierteljahresschrift https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-021-00316-z
    Rasem, Fabian (2021): Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur https://zfphl.org/article/view/37215

     

    Edited Special Issue (peer-reviewed)

    2015: Animal Politics. A New Research Agenda in Political Theory. In: Historical Social Research 40 (4) (with Peter Niesen).

     

    Articles and Chapters (* indicating peer-review)

    *forth. 2023: Exit-Politik als Regression. Wider den souveränen Voluntarismus“ In: Niesen, Peter (ed.): Zur Diagnose demokratischer Regression. Leviathan (with Markus Patberg).

    *forth. 2023: Political Representation of Animals. In: Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, Saskia Stucki (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    *2022:  Plural Reconstruction: A Method of Critical Theory for the Analysis of Emerging and Contested Political Practices. In: Philosophy & Social Criticism. 48 (5) 703-725.

    *2019:  Regressions in Membership Law. For a Cosmopolitanism from within. In: Constellations 26 (3): 492-503 (with Peter Niesen).

    2019: Regressionen des Mitgliedschaftsrechts. In: Bohmann, Ulf/Sörensen, Paul (eds.): Kritische Theorie der Politik. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 608-631 (with Peter Niesen).

    *2015: Konstituierende Autorität. Ein Grundbegriff für die Internationale Politische Theorie. In: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 6 (2) 159-172 (with Peter Niesen and Markus Patberg).

    *2015: What is Animal Politics? Outline of a New Research Agenda. In: Historical Social Research 40 (4): 7-31 (with Peter Niesen).

    2014: Tiere im Parlament? Neue Wege in der Repräsentationstheorie. In: Mittelweg 36, 23 (5), 59-73.

    2014: The Democratic Paradox of International Human Rights Courts: A Kantian Solution? In: Føllesdal, Andreas/Maliks, Reidar (eds.): Kantian Theory and Human Rights. London/New York: Routledge, 113-129.

    2014: Der Axtmörder und die Menschenrechtsgerichtsbarkeit. Überlegungen zum Fall Hirst des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte. In: Franzius, Claudio/Meyer, Franz C./Neyer, Jürgen (eds.): Europas Zukunft. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 149-172 (with Peter Niesen).

    2012: Von der verfassunggebenden zur konstitutionalisierenden Gewalt. Die demokratische Legitimität völkerrechtlicher Konstitutionalisierung’. In: Fassbender, Bardo/Siehr, Angelika (eds.): Suprastaatliche Konstitutionalisierung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 23-56 (with Markus Patberg).

     

    Book Reviews

    2021: Review of Udo Bermbach: Demokratietheorie und Politische Institutionen, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1991. In: Peter Niesen/David Weiß (eds.): 100 Jahre Politikwissenschaft in Hamburg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 174-177.

    2017: Review of Sarah Fine/Lea Ypi (eds.): Migration in Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2016. In: Constellations 24 (1): 133-134.

    2012: Review of Seyla Benhabib: Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times. Polity Press,

    2011. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 53 (4): 690-693.

     

    Awards and Scholarships

    02/2019           Werner-von-Melle-Dissertation Award 2018, Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung (10,000 €)

     06/2017         Teaching Award, Hamburger Lehrpreis (10,000 €)

    02/2015           Josef-Esser-Award for Best M.A. Dissertation in Political Science at Goethe-University Frankfurt 2014

    06/2012           Gay Clifford Award for Outstanding Women Students, University College London

    02/2019           Conference Grant, Thyssen Foundation (with Peter Niesen)

    09/2016 – 12/2016       PhD Scholarship for Visiting Stay at Yale University, German Academic  Exchange Service DAAD

    10/2008 – 09/2013       Student Scholarship and two Foreign Exchange Scholarships, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

     

    Projects

    04/2023    Research Project: “Democratic Legitimacy of Strategic Litigation in the Context of Religion” (EXC-2060 Religion and Politics, University of Münster)

    09/2020    Full funding for Interdisciplinary Cooperation Group on “Normative Challenges of the European Asylum System”, funded by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany, Funding Period: May 2021 – October 2023, (100,000 €, with three co-applicants)