ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Since 2022 Research Fellow & Co-PI, project KNOWPRO, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Since 2015 Lecturer in Sociology (currently on leave), Research Group on International Political Sociology, Kiel University
2019-2020 DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC
2013-2015 Research Officer for the Institutional Strategy, University of Bremen
2011-2012 Research Officer, University of Bremen
2008 Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
2007 Associate Fellow, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen
EDUCATION
Dr. rer. pol./Ph.D. in Political Science (summa cum laude), University of Bremen, 2017
M.A. in International Relations (with distinction), University of Essex, 2005
Diplom in Political Science, University of Hamburg, 2004
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019-2020 DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellowship (ten months), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington DC
2018 EISA Best Dissertation Award, European International Studies Association
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Research Project on “Gender in German Peace and Security Policy”, German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) (135,000 €).
Research Project on “Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy,” German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (1.5 million €), with Sophia Hoffmann, Dirk Nabers, and Klaus Schlichte
Travel grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2,259 €) (declined)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (US$ 45,000)
Grant for a two-day workshop on “Debating Postcolonialism: Assessing the Contribution of Postcolonial Perspectives to Peace and Conflict Research”, German Foundation for Peace Research (8,125 €), with Hartwig Hummel and Lotta Mayer (project no.: TG 01/19-WAT 02/27-2018)
Grant for a two-day workshop on “U.S. Security Relations in the Age of Trump: Lessons for/from Germany and Japan”, Kiel University’s internal Internationalization Fund (3,550 €), with Dirk Nabers
DNSZ Seed Money Grant for a Workshop “Music and World Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, German-Norwegian Study Center/Deutsch-Norwegisches Studienzentrum (1,350 €)
ISA Annual Convention Working Group on Global Populism, 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Baltimore, 2017, with Dirk Nabers and David B. MacDonald
Grant for a pilot study on Donald Trump and Populism, Heinrich Böll Foundation (4,200 €), with Dirk Nabers
Workshop grant for a two-day workshop on ‘Laclau’s Contribution to IR: Rethinking Core Concepts’, Kiel University’s internal Internationalization Fund (2,000 €), with Dirk Nabers
“Bremen TRAC – COFUND Fellowships for Transnational Academic Careers,” COFUND grant in the EU Commission’s 7th Framework Programme for the establishment of a postdoctoral program, 2012 (1.19 million €), co-authored with Achim Wiesner. Role: lead author of the proposal (the University of Bremen was the official applicant)
“Ambitious and Agile,” grant for the establishment of an Institutional Strategy to Promote Top-Level Research in the German Excellence Initiative, 2011 (45.05 million €). Role: member of the “core team” – with Rector Wilfried Müller, Vice Rector for Research Rolf Drechsler, Head of Academic Affairs Marcus Beiner and Head of Research Services Achim Wiesner – that wrote the proposal (the University of Bremen was the official applicant)
PhD scholarship (3 years), Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), 2008 (circa 45,000€)
GIGA Research Scholarship (8 months), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, 2008
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Co-Speaker, Theory Section, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK), since 2018
Communications Director, International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association, 2017 – 2019
Editorial Board Member, “Global Populisms” book series, Brill Publishers
Assistant Editor of Japan aktuell – Journal of Current Japanese Affairs, 2007-2008
Reviewer for (verified reviewer record available at Publons):
- Critical Discourse Studies
- European Journal of International Security
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- Global Studies Quarterly
- International Relations
- International Studies Review
- Journal of International Relations and Development
- Millennium: Journal of International Studies
- New Political Science
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Peace & Change
- Populism
- Security Dialogue
- Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
- Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
MEMBERSHIPS
British International Studies Association (BISA)
German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK)
German Political Science Association (DVPW)
German Sociological Association (DGS)
International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP)
International Studies Association (ISA)