Prof. Dr. Svenja Ahlhaus

Prof. Dr. Svenja Ahlhaus

Scharnhorststr. 100
48151 Münster

T: +49 251 83-29354

Academic Profile
 
Research Foci
  • Political Theory
  • Democratic Theory
  • Democracy and Religion: Democratic challengs of religious plurality
  • Theories of Political Representation and Ecological Crises (Sustainability, Climate Politics, Animal Politics)
  • Boundaries of Political Communities, Migration, Citizenship, Membership
  • Democratic Legitimacy of Political Institutions (e.g. Citizen's Assemblies, strategic litigation)
  • Feminist Theory
CV

Academic Education

Doctorate in Political Science
M.A. Political Theory (Goethe-University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt)
M.A. Legal and Political Theory University College London
B.A. Political Science (FU Berlin)

Positions

Visiting Researcher, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Juniorprofessor in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, University of Münster
Research Associate (Postdoc) in Political Theory, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg
Research Associate (Pre-doc) in Political Theory, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg
Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University, Political Science Department (Host: Seyla Benhabib)
Visiting Researcher, European University Institute, Italy (Host: Rainer Bauböck)

Prizes

Werner von Melle Award – Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung and Edmund Siemers-Stiftung
Hamburg Teaching Award in the category Beste Lehrveranstaltung an der Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften – Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Gleichstellung und Bezirke der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
DAAD Forschungsstipendium für Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Josef Esser Award for the best MA Thesis in the category Best MA-Thesis in the first term of 2014 – Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Gay Clifford Award for Outstanding Women Students – University College London
Stipendium für Studierende – Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

External Function

German Political Science Association (Member)
Teaching

Lecture
Seminar
Practical

  • (in cooperation with Felix Petersen, Ulrich Willems, Norbert Kersting, Antonia Graf, Ulrich Hamenstädt, Antje Vetterlein, Christiane Frantz, Max Schulte, Oliver Treib, Thomas Dietz, Bernd Schlipphak, Hendrik Meyer, Carsten Wegscheider and Matthias Freise)
Colloquium

Seminar
Practical
Colloquium
Reading course

Lecture
Practical

  • (in cooperation with Felix Petersen, Ulrich Willems, Norbert Kersting, Antonia Graf, Ulrike Krause, Ulrich Hamenstädt, Antje Vetterlein, Christiane Frantz, Max Schulte, Oliver Treib, Thomas Dietz, Bernd Schlipphak, Hendrik Meyer, Carsten Wegscheider and Matthias Freise)
Practice
Colloquium

Seminar
Practical
Reading courses

Seminar
Practicals
Reading course
Projects

Selection

Complete List

Publications

Book (Monograph)

  • . . Theorie und Gesellschaft, Die Grenzen des Demos. Mitgliedschaftspolitik aus postsouveräner Perspektive Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
  • , and . . “Justification and Compromise in Contemporary Democratic Theory about Religion.” Religionspädagogische Beiträge. Journal for Religion in Education 49 (1): 1–12. doi: 10.20377/rpb-1966.
  • , and . . “Special Issue Introduction: Religion and Democratic Theory.” Democratic Theory 13 (2): 167–174. doi: 10.1017/S2332889426000254.
  • . . “Is Religious Strategic Litigation Special? A Deliberative View.” Democratic Theory 13 (2): 263–277. doi: 10.1017/S2332889426000242.
  • . . “Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy.” American Journal of Political Science Online First. doi: 10.1111/ajps.12981.
  • . . “Democratic underlabouring in times of emergency: The case of climate litigation.” Preprint. Journal of International Political Theory Online First. doi: 10.1177/17550882251351924.
  • . . “From legitimate boundaries to legitimate boundary-making: towards a theory of post-sovereign membership politics.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) Online First. doi: 10.1080/13698230.2024.2388415.
  • . . “Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics.” Global Constitutionalism Online First. doi: 10.1017/S2045381724000212.
  • , and . . “Exit-Politik als Regression. Wider den souveränen Voluntarismus.” Leviathan - Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 51 (Sonderband 40): 170–191. doi: 10.5771/9783748933076.
  • . . “Plural reconstruction: A method of critical theory for the analysis of emerging and contested political practices.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (5): 703–725. doi: 10.1177/01914537211017570.
  • , and . . “Regressions in Membership Law. For a Cosmopolitanism from within.” Constellations (Oxford, England) 26 (3): 492–503. doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12433.
  • , , and . . “Konstituierende Autorität. Ein Grundbegriff für die Internationale Politische Theorie.” Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 6 (2): 159–172. doi: 10.3224/zpth.v6i2.22875.
  • , and . . “What is Animal Politics? Outline of a New Research Agenda.” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 40 (4): 7–31.
  • . . “Tiere im Parlament? Für ein neues Verständnis politischer Repräsentation.” Mittelweg 36 23 (5): 59–73.
Review Article (Journal)
  • , and . . “Interview with Cécile Laborde on Religion, Secularism, and Political Theory.” Democratic Theory 13 (2): 278–283. doi: 10.1017/S2332889426000242.
Review (Journals)
  • . . “Contemporary Democratic Theory.” Contemporary Political Theory Online First. doi: 10.1057/s41296-024-00734-9.
  • . . “Review of Fine, Sarah; Ypi, Lea (eds): Migration in Political Theory.” Constellations (Oxford, England) 23 (1): 133–134. doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12271.
  • . . “Benhabib, Seyla: Dignity in Adversity. Human Rights in Troubled Times.” Politische Vierteljahresschrift 53 (4): 690–692.
Book Contributions
Research Article (Book Contributions)
  • . . “Shifting Borders, Shifting Political Representation.” in Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders, edited by Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009512824.020.
  • , and . . “Regressionen des Mitgliedschaftsrechts: Für einen Kosmopolitismus von innen.” in Kritische Theorie der Politik, edited by Ulf Bohman, Sörensen and Paul. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.
  • . . “The Democratic Paradox of International Human Rights Courts: A Kantian Solution?” in Kantian Theory and Human Rights, edited by Andreas Føllesdal and Reidar Maliks. London/New York: Routledge.
  • , and . . “Der Axtmörder und die Menschenrechtsgerichtsbarkeit. Überlegungen zum Fall Hirst des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte.” in Grenzen der europäischen Integration. Herausforderungen für Recht und Politik, edited by Claudio Franzius, Franz C. Mayer and Jürgen Neyer. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
  • , and . . “Von der verfassunggebenden zur konstitutionalisierenden Gewalt. Die demokratische Legitimität völkerrechtlicher Konstitutionalisierung.” in Suprastaatliche Konstitutionalisierung, edited by Bardo Fassbender and Angelika Siehr. Baden-Baden: Nomos. doi: 10.5771/9783845243313-23.
  • . in Kürze. “Political Representation of Animals.” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law, edited by Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt and Saskia Stucki. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Review (Book Contribution)
  • . . “Institutionentheorie als Demokratiewissenschaft.” in 100 Jahre Politikwissenschaft in Hamburg, edited by Peter Niesen and David Weiß. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

Special Issue of a Journal

  • Ahlhaus, Svenja, and Niesen, Peter, eds. .“Animal Politics. A New Research Agenda in Political Theory.” Special Issue Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 4. doi: 10.12759/hsr.40.2015.4.7-31.

Web Publications (Blog Article)

  • . . “Rezension zu Ingeborg Maus (2015): Menschenrechte, Demokratie und Frieden. Suhrkamp.” Soziopolis
Supervised Doctoral Study