Since 2018: Coordinator of the trinational master's degree program "European Studies" (cooperation with the Universities of Dijon (France) and Opole (Poland))
02/2017: Doctorate in Political Science (title of the doctoral dissertation: “Equality, Freedom and Cultural Pluralism: Opportunities and Limits of Justifying State Cultural Accommodation from an Egalitarian-Liberal Perspective”)
Since 2016: Research employee, Department of International Politics, JGU Mainz
2013 – 2015: Research employee, Department of Political Theory, JGU Mainz
2009 – 2011: Lecturer in the Departments of International Relations and Political Theory, JGU Mainz
2009 – 2013: Scholarship student at SoCuM (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz); Associated with AG 2 “The Public Constitution of Minorities”
2008 – 2009: Research employee, Department of International Relations/ Foreign Policy, TU Kaiserslautern
2007: MSc (Econ) in Political Theory; master's thesis: Walzer's Moral Conception of State Sovereignty
2005 - 2006: Master of Economic and Social Studies in Political Theory, Cardiff University (UK)
2001 - 2008: Magister degree in Political Science/ Philosophy, JGU Mainz

Cultural Diversity in Liberal Democracy, Minority Rights and Politics
Empirical and Normative Theories of International Relations
Liberalism and Neorepublicanism
Anti-discrimination and Dealing with Hate Speech

Alan Patten's "Equal Recognition" and Cultural Accommodation in Liberal Democracies
with Jürgen Sirsch: Neorepublicanism and Egalitarian-Liberalism as "Public Philosophies" / "Normative Research Programs"

Monograph:

Unger, Doris (2018): Equality, Freedom and Cultural Pluralism: Possibilities and Limitations of Justifying State Cultural Accommodation from an Egalitarian-Liberal Perspective. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

Unger, Doris / Sirsch, Jürgen / Stockemer, Daniel / Niemann, Arne (2023): What guides citizen support for redistributive EU measures as a response to COVID-19: Justice attitudes, self-interest or support for European integration? In: European Union Politics, 24: 3, 578-600. Link

Stockemer, Daniel / Niemann, Arne / Unger, Doris / Plank, Friedrich (2021): Equally at risk? Perceived financial differences, risk assessment and containment measures in the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Contemporary Politics, 28: 2, 225-244. Link

Sirsch, Jürgen / Unger, Doris (2021): The Neorepublican Challenge to Egalitarian-Liberalism: Evaluating Justifications of Redistributive Institutions. In: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 24: 7, 1000-1023 (Online first July 2019): doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644580. Link

Stockemer, Daniel / Niemann, Arne / Unger, Doris / Speyer, Johanna (2020): The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism. In: International Migration Review. 54: 3, 883–912. (online first: Sept. 2019) doi.org/10.1177/0197918319879926. Link

Stockemer, Daniel / Niemann, Arne / Rabenschlag, Johannes / Speyer, Johanna / Unger, Doris (2018): Immigration, Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Euroscepticism: A Meta-Analysis. In: French Politics, 16: 3, 328-340. Link

Contributions to edited volumes:

Unger, Doris / Jürgen Unger-Sirsch (2023): "You don't belong here!" Social Exclusion through Hate Speech as a Problem for Liberal Democracies. In: Jaki, Sylvia / Steiger, Stefan (Hg.): Digitale Hate Speech: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Recognition, Description and Regulation. J. B. Metzler, 173-195. Link

Sirsch, Jürgen / Unger, Doris (2019): Does Non-Domination Imply Freedom? A Discussion of the Neorepublican Conception of Freedom. In: Marker, Karl / Schmitt, Annette / Sirsch, Jürgen (Hg.): Demokratie und Entscheidung: Beiträge zur Analytischen Politischen Theorie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 65-80. Link

Unger, Doris (2013): The Right to Equal Treatment and the (Ir)Relevance of Group-Specific Characteristics Using the Example of Anti-Discrimination Law. In: Bonn, Eva / Knöppler, Christian / Souza, Miguel (Hg.): Was machen Marker? Logik, Materialität und Politik von Differenzierungsprozessen. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013, 317-342. Link

Unger, Doris (2013): Criteria for restricting hate speech: Content, costs, or value of statements? In: Meibauer, Jörg (Hg.): Hassrede/Hate Speech. Interdisciplinary Contributions to a Current Discussion. Gießen: Gießener Elektronische Bibliothek, 2013, 257-285. Link

Other:

Unger, Doris (approx. 2026): Entry Chwaszcza, Christine. In: Kassner, Joshua J. / Chatterjee, Deen K. (Hg.): Encyclopedia of Global Justice. 2nd Edition. Dordrecht, Springer: XXX.

Unger, Doris (2013): Review of "Van Parijs, Philippe, Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World”. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 54: 1, 220-222. Link

Unger, Doris (2011): Entry Christine Chwaszcza. In: Chatterjee, Deen K. (Hg.): Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Dordrecht u. a.: Springer Verlag, 128-129. Link

Newspaper articles:

Unger, Doris / Sirsch, Jürgen (2015): The hate must be argued against. In: Causa, Tagesspiegel.de from November 27, 2015: https://causa.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/hass-im-netz/gegen-den-hass-muss-argumentiert-werden.html. Link

"Hate speech as a dilemma of liberal democracies", lecture at the conference "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hate Speech and its Detection" (IPHSE), Hildesheim (virtual) (8.2.2021), together with Jürgen Sirsch
"Competing Conceptions of Freedom for a Public Philosophy", lecture at the MANCEPT conference, Manchester (virtual) (10.09.2020), together with Jürgen Sirsch
"Neorepublicanism as a Public Philosophy: An Argument for Freedom as Non-Domination", lecture at the conference "Republics and Republicanism: Theory and Practice", Venice (04.05.2019), together with Jürgen Sirsch:
„Neo-Republicanism and liberal Egalitarianism“; lecture at the DVPW conference: „On the situation of republican political theory“, Aachen (11.03.2015), together with Jürgen Sirsch
„Cultural Regulation and the Justification of Coercion”; lecture at the conference „New Policies of Accommodating Cultural Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities for Multilevel States” of the cluster of excellence „Cultural Foundations of Integration”, Konstanz (15.06.2013)
„Public Justification in Multicultural Societies”; lecture at the GAP doctoral candidate workshop „Basic Questions of Moral Philosophy“, Zurich (15.12.2012)
„Chandran Kukathas‘s Conception of Liberal Toleration”; commentary at the workshop „Tolerating Difference: Cultural Minorities and Liberal Societies“ with Chandran Kukathas (LSE), Mainz (10.02.2012)
„The Right to Equal Treatment and the (Ir)Relevance of Group-Specific Characteristics“; lecture at the SOCUM workshop „What do markers do? Logic, materiality and politics of differentiation processes“, Mainz (03.09.2011)
„Hate speech towards minorities: The right to freedom of expression and the right to a life free from fear“; lecture at the SOCUM workshop „Hate Speech/Hassrede“, Mainz (29.01.2010)

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