Professor of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Department of Political Science
International Studies |
In Darkness
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Enlightened?
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Caltech Turtles
Huntington Library
Other academic stations:
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Politikwissenschaft (now Sozialwissenschaften)
Institut für Vergleichende Städtegeschiche an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar, Abteilung für Westfälische Landesgeschichte
Research:
Western and non-Western political theory, including Islamic, Latin American, and Indian political and cultural thought; history of political ideas; comparative political theory more generally; issues related to the interaction of politics and religion; political violence in trans-cultural comparison; the concept of terrorism as a topic in political theory; state decline and state failure; mass surveillance related topics; state terrorism.
Editorial Activities:
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Manuscript reviewer:
- The American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) - The American Political Science Review (APSR) - ATINER - Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies - The British Journal for the History of Philosophy - Encyclopedia of Political Thought - Global Constitutionalism - Global Policy - History of European Ideas |
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- Intellectual History Review - Journal of the History of Philosophy - Journal of Political Philosophy (JPP) - Lexington - LSE Kuwait Programme research papers - Oxford University Press - Palgrave Macmillan - Political Research Quarterly (PRQ) - Polity - Polity Press - The Review of Politics - Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol) |
Other Activities:
- Global Policy Webinar "Secularism in Religiously Dominated Societies: Between Threat and Promise," January 10, 2023.
Teaching:
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At Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University:
- Introduction to Political Theory - Political Theory from Plato to the Seventeenth Century - Political Theory from the Seventeenth Century to the Present - Origins of the State - Senior Seminar International Studies - Senior Seminar in Political Theory - Independent Study - Undergraduate Research - Discourse Analysis - Religion and Conflict (team taught) - Islamic Conceptions of Justice (team taught) - Pre-Modern Christian and Islamic Political Theory - Issues in Comparative Political Theory (CPT) - From Ibn Taymiyya to the Islamic State - Theorizing Violence - Secularity Reconsidered - Religion and Nationalism in the Middle East (team taught) - Secular Arab Thought |
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At TU Darmstadt:
- Religion and Political Conflict (Summer 2015) - Secular Arab Discourses (Summer 2023) At Carl von Ossietzky Universität (in German):
- Ancient Political Theory: Plato – Aristotle – Cicero - Key Issues in Medieval Political Thought - Introduction to Modern Political Theory - Political Theories of Federalism: Althusius and the Federalist Papers - American Political Theory: Introduction to Contemporary Issues - Introduction to Islamic Political Thought - Theories of Justice - Theories of Resistance in Western and Islamic Political Thought |
But I also fancy old stone, even when under (re)construction...
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To look into the past to understand today,
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Or simply to change perspectives...
However, I also love my camera...
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Wendland
Storks/Störche
Wendland, Lower Saxony, where I grew up and where on can observe
sunset - watching storks. |
Riemann Gedenkstein
Same region and perhaps thrilling for mathematicians: The Bernhard Riemann memorial stone in Breselenz, Riemann's village of birth. |