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WEISS, Alexander |
Education
| Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) with licence to teach (venia legendi) in Political Science
University of Hamburg |
16 October 2018
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| Cumulative Habilitation | Submitted: 23 Mai 2017 – Colloquium: 22 August 2018 |
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Hamburg University, Colloquium: 22nd August 2018
Habilitation title: “Comparative Democratic Theory. Transformations of Democratic Theory Facing the Challenge of Non-Western Thought”
Reviewer: Peter Niesen, Olaf Asbach (Hamburg University), Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame, US)
| PhD (Doctor disc. pol.) | November 2007 |
Department for Political Science, Goettingen University
Dissertation title: “Theory of parliamentary publicity. History of discourse and deliberative model”
Supervisors: Walter Reese-Schäfer, Peter Niesen
Grade: magna cum laude
| Magister in Political Science | March 2000 |
University of Hamburg: Political Science (Major), Philosophy, and Newer German Literature (two minors)
Grade: Sehr gut (best possible)
Positions
| Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory and History of Ideas
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany |
Since 2020
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| Lectureships at Hamburg University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg | Since 2018
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| Visiting Scholar at Leuphana University, Lüneburg | 2019 |
| Administration of the professorship “Political System of Germany and the European Union” (50%) at Leuphana University, Lüneburg | 2019 |
| Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center | 2018 |
| Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory and History of Ideas
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany |
2016 – 2018 |
| Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory and History of Ideas
Institute for Political Science, Hamburg University, Germany |
2009 – 2016 |
| Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory and History of Ideas
Institute for Political Science, University of Augsburg, Germany |
2008 – 2009 |
Fellowships and Funded Research
| Fellowship | October – November 2018 |
Research Project “Digitalization and Comparative Democratic Theory”, Fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Berlin, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
| Research Project | August – September 2013 |
Research Project “Democratic Theories in China” at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, funded by the Scholar Exchange Program of the University of Hamburg.
| Short Term Lectureship | 2009 |
Short term lectureship at the Summer School “German Political Thought in the 20th Century” at the Universidade de São Paulo, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
| Research Project | August – September 2008 |
Research Project “Parliamentary Publicities in South Korea, France, and Germany”, funded by the Korean Research Foundation (KRF) and the DAAD.
| DFG-Scholarship | 2000 – 2003 |
DFG-scholarship (German Research Foundation) an the European research training group (Europäisches Graduiertenkolleg) 625 Institutional Orders, Writing and Symbols at the Technical University Dresden and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
| Teaching Assistantship | 1997 – 1998 |
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana: exchange program with University Hamburg, DAAD co-funded, teaching assistant for classes of German as a Foreign Language
| Erasmus-Scholarship | 1996 – 1997 |
Université Nanterre, Paris
Obtained Fundings
| 2000 – 2003 | DFG-Stipendium im Europäischen Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg 625 „Institutionelle Ordnungen, Schrift und Symbole“ an der TU Dresden und der École pratique des hautes études in Paris | Ca. 36.000€ |
| 2007 | Research Project „Parliamentary Publicities in South Korea, France, and Germany“, funded by DAAD and Korean Research Foundation | Ca. 5.000€ |
| 2010 | DAAD-short-term professoship at the Summer School „O pensamento político alemão no século 20 e sua recepção no Brasil“ (in English), Universidade Sao Paulo | Ca. 4.000€ |
| 2013 | Research Project „Democratic Theory in China” at National Taiwan University, Taipeh, funded by the researcher exchange programm, University of Hamburg. | Ca. 6.000€ |
| 2015 | Conference funding by Thyssen Foundation for the conference „‘Democracy’ beyond the West. Theories, Discourses, Attitudes“, University of Hamburg | 10.000€ |
| 2015 | Conference funding by the Faculty for Economy and Social Sciences for the conference „‘Democracy’ beyond the West. Theories, Discourses, Attitudes“, University of Hamburg | 10.000€ |
| 2016 | Funding of publication of annual special issue of „Politische Vierteljahresschrift“ (PVS-Sonderheft) „‘Democracy’ beyond the West. Theories, Discourses, Attitudes“ | 3.000€ |
| submitted 2019 (decision Nov. 2019) | Submitted application for funding of a research group for the project Antrag auf Forschungsprojekt „Democracy as Global Experience. Democratic Research in its historic and regional contexts“ at Gerda Henkel Foundation (together with Sophia Schubert) | (248.011€) |
Academic Activities, Teaching
| Supervisions | 2009 – ongoing |
Supervisor for final theses for more than 20 graduate students and more than 30 undergraduate students
| Teaching | 2002 – ongoing |
45 independent seminars and lectures in political theory, political system and general introduction into political science on all levels of undergraduate and graduate studies at universities in Dresden, Augsburg, Hamburg, Lüneburg, São Paulo, both in German and English.
| Commissions of Trust and Review | 2012 – ongoing |
Editorial Board for the series “Trans- and Intercultural Political Theory and Intellectual History”, Springer Verlag.
Review for several academic journals (among them: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Leviathan, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft)
| Memberships of Scientific Societies | 2002 – ongoing |
2012 – ongoing Member, Research Network “DVPW (German Association for Political Science)”
2002 – ongoing Member, Research Network “Theory Section within the DVPW”
2011 – ongoing Co-founder, speaker, and member of the Standing Group “Transcultural comparative political theory”
| Career Breaks | 2009/2010 and 2015 |
Parental leave (2 months and 5 months) for my wonderful children
Language Skills
German: native language
English: fluent
French: fluent
Latin: first foreign language, qualification in Latin
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