Experience

Diskurs
(Interdisciplinary Journal of Political Science and the Humanities)
Co-Editor

Since January 2007

Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies on
Germany and Europe
Head of the Department for Research on International Relations

Muenster, Germany
July 2005 – July 2007

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Office for Regional Co-Operation in Southeast Asia
Academic Assistant (Full Time)
(German NGO promoting social democracy)

Singapore,
April 2006 – July 2006

German Embassy, Moscow
Internship (Full Time)

Moscow, Russia
Feb 2005 – April 2005

Office of Hans Pflug,
Member of the German Parliament
Internship (Full Time)

Berlin, Germany
Feb 2004 – March 2004

Education

Student in the PhD-Programm and Research Assistant
at Rockefeller College, Department of Political Science
State University of New York at Albany
since August 2007

Interests of Study:
• History of Political and Philosophical Thought,
• Political Philosophy & Practical Philosophy,
• Epistemology and Ontology,
• Critical Marxism (Lukacz, Gramsci, Korsch, Bloch) and Critical Theory (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas),
• "French" Philosophy (Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard),
• Theory of International Relations
• the relevance of other disciplines (ie., history, sociology, literary theory and linguistics) for political philosophy

Magister Artium in Political Science, History and English Philology
with distinction (Summa Cum Laude)
Magister Thesis: The Relevance of Gramsci's Theory of Hegemony for Post-Modern International Politics
University of Muenster, Germany, July 2007

Community service (as alternative to military service)
Nurse at the Geriatric Welfare Center Bottrop, Germany (Full Time)
October 2000 – August 2001

Publications

“Stille Freude. Chancen und Risiken einer Geschichte des politischen Denkens.”
(with Matthias Lemke) In: Lemke, Matthias; Kuchler, Daniel; Nawrath, Sebastian: Diskurs 1/2009. Leipzig (Germany), 2007.

“Ein demokratistischer Fehlschluss? Kommentar zur Theorie der failed states.”
In: Lemke, Matthias; Hermeier, Philipp: Diskurs 2/2006. Goettingen (Germany), 2006.

Conference Presentations

Adorno: No Man's Land - 40 Years On
August 6, 2009
University of Sussex, UK
Paper Presentation "Adorno, Popper and the Critique of Positivism - a Reexamination and Implications for Practical Philosophy"

International Studies Association Annual Convention
February 15-18, 2009
New York, NY
Paper Presentation "Problematizing the State: National Consensus as Hindrance to Human Emancipation in Critical Security Studies"

International Studies Association - Northeast Conference
October 3 & 4, 2008
Baltimore, MD
Paper Presentation "Autopoiesis: The Political Dimension of Radical Constructivism in IR"

Academic Colloquium "Die Krise der EU sowie Russlands und Amerikas Verhältnis zu Europa"
Prof. Dr. Karl Hahn, University of Muenster, Germany, June 23/24, 2005
Paper Presentation “Die Stellung Weißrusslands und der Ukraine in Europa”

International Seminar “Global Economy of Water”
Rjasan, Russia, August 2005
Paper Presentation “Steuerungseffekte umweltpolitischer Massnahmen”

Organized
Conferences

Workshop “Sustaining Development through Garment Exports: Cambodia and the Least Developed Economies”
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 2006
Organizing Committee

Workshop “Learning, Innovation and Competitiveness: Achieving Social Welfare in Southeast Asian Manufacturing”
University of Malaya, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, June 13-16, 2006
Organizing Committee

Academic Colloquium "Die europa- und hochschulpolitische Bedeutung der Bundestagswahl 2005"
Prof. Dr. Karl Hahn, University of Muenster, Germany, July 13, 2005
Organizing Committee

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for RPOS 102 - International Relations and Comparative Politics
(SUNY Albany)
Fall 2008; Spring 2009; Fall 2009
work included use of electronic learning ressources and training for teaching writing intensive classes
Supplementary class taught on logic, argumentation and composition

Guest Lecture in RPOS 301 - History of Political Thought I
(SUNY Albany)
Fall 2009
"Aristotle: Introduction to his Philosophy and Implications for his Political Thought" Oct 15, 2009

Guest Lectures in RPOS 102 - International Relations and Comparative Politics
(SUNY Albany)
Fall 2009
"Global Issues: the Environmental Economics and Human Rights" Sept 30, 2009

Spring 2009
"Introduction to German Politics" April 1, 2009
"European Union: Institutions and Theories" April 3, 2009

Lecture in "Diskursseminar: Der Europäische Traum"
(University of Münster)
Spring 2005
"European Dream - Ein Begriff ex Negaivo? Kulturelle, politische und ökonomische Dimensionen des amerikanischen Traums" ("Cultural, political and economic dimensions of the American Dream")
(2 Lectures) May 11 & 25, 2005
"Die Osteuropäische Dimension - Weißrussland, Georgien und die Ukraine" ("The Eastern Europe Dimension: Belarus, Georgia and the Ukraine") July 13, 2005

Research Training

2007 Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative - Human Research Basic Course
Training in research involving human subjects, as well as ethical and formal considerations such as Institutional Review Boards etc

2007 Methods of the Social Sciences
Training in research quantitative and qualitative methods of the social sciences

2008 Statistics
Training in use of statistics as a research tool as well as the use of the software STATA

2007/2008 Research Assistant
Research Assistant in the fields of International Relations, Comparative Politics and Public Policy

Qualifications

Language Skills
self-evaluation according to Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level

Foreign Exchange Programms:

1993/1994 One week in Paris, France.

1996 Three weeks in Vermont, USA

1997 One week in Koscian, Poland

1997/1998 one year as an exchange student in Baton Rouge, LA.

Youth Work:

2005-2007 Scoutmaster of the Boy Scout Troop “DPSG Heilig-Geist Hiesfeld”

Community and Social Service

Member of the Student Committee against Social Selecion in the Educational Sector (2002/3)

Several Projects on Environmental Issues, Peace and Social Problems during Middle School, High School and University.

During Middle School and High School: editor of the school newspaper
During Middle School: head of the student council.