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

Magister Artium in Political Science
Secondary Focuses: History and English Philology
with distinction
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

“Postmoderne Identität als Anti-Totalitarismus. Eine Würdigung Jean-François Lyotards.”
(with Matthias Lemke) In: Lemke, Matthias; Kuchler, Daniel: Diskurs 1+2/2007. Leipzig (Germany), 2007.

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

“Belarus, Soft Power und die EU. Zur Relevanz des ThomasTheorems am Beispiel der 'letzten Diktatur Europas'.”
In: Lemke, Matthias; Hermeier, Philipp: Diskurs 2/2005. Goettingen (Germany), 2005.

Conference Participation

New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting
April 25 & 26, 2008
Paper Presentation “The Relevance of Poststructuralist Methodology to Gramscian International Political Theory”

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

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

Qualifications

Language Skills:

Spoken and written English, German and French; written Latin.

Learning Russian and Spanish at the moment.

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

Several Projects on Environmental Issues, Peace and Social Problems during Middle School, High Schooland University.
During Middle School and High School: editor of the school newspaper
During Middle School: head of the student council.