Welcome to my personal website!
I am a Research Fellow at Kiel University’s Research Group on International Political Sociology. From September 2019 onwards I will be a DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
My work focuses mainly on international politics and foreign policy, which I approach from mainly two different angles. First, I am interested in how the discursive construction of meaning impacts foreign policy. Here I try to combine the perspective of “Essex School” discourse theory with insights from feminist ans postcolonial approaches. Second, I also rely on approaches that focus on foreign policy decision making (Foreign Policy Analysis). My doctoral dissertation, which I completed at the University of Bremen (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences) in 2017, received the 2018 EISA Best Dissertation Award.
Before coming to Kiel University in 2015, I worked at the University of Bremen as a Research Officer for the Institutional Strategy. There I was a member of the five-person “core team” that organized the university’s successful application in the third funding line “Institutional Strategies” of the German Excellence Initiative and co-authored a successful grant application to establish the post-doc program “BREMEN TRAC“, co-funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program.
This website provides information about my career, my past and current research, publications and conference papers as well as an overview of courses taught.
In my research, I focus mainly on:
- International Political Sociology
- Critical Security Studies and Critical Military Studies, in particular with respect to the German armed forces (Bundeswehr)
- Foreign Policy Analysis and the increasing role of non-state actors in foreign policy
- Discourse theory
- Populism and global order
Other online profiles and websites:
Institutional website at Kiel University
ORCID: 0000-0003-2384-7119
ResearcherID: H-1865-2011
SCOPUS author ID: 43762266800
Profiles on Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, ResearchGate, Academia, Impactstory and Kudos.
Contact
Dr. Frank A. Stengel
Kiel University
Research Group on International Political Sociology
Wilhelm-Seelig-Platz 2
24118 Kiel, Germany