• Dec. 2023-Sept. 2024: maternity leave/parental leave
  • 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”
  1. Basissem Internationale Beziehungen
    Instructor: Dr. Johannes Muntschick; Laura Ulrich; Dr. Doris Unger
  2. Praktikum mit Europabezug (min. 6 Wochen)
    Instructor: Dr. Doris Unger

WiSe 2025/26

  • “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)