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Professor of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic ​Institute & State University

Department of Political Science
​International Studies
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In Darkness
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Enlightened?

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California Institute of Technology, Visiting Associate in the Humanities, 2016/17

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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow, 2016/17

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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 E-International Relations Board  Member

 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)

Teaching:

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)
 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 

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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
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Storks/Störche
Wendland, Lower Saxony, where I grew up and where on can observe
​sunset - 
watching storks.
Riemann Gedenkstein
Riemann Gedenkstein
 
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Same region and perhaps thrilling for mathematicians: 
The Bernhard Riemann  memorial stone in Breselenz, Riemann's village of birth.

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