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

    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)

    Honors

    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

    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [060995]
      (in cooperation with Dr. Hendrik Meyer, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Prof. Dr. Daniel Bischof, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Karen Siegel, Dr. Tobias Albrecht, Dr. Manon Westphal, Dr. Carsten Wegscheider)

    Seminar
    Praktikum
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [068889]
      (in cooperation with Dr. Manon Westphal, Dr. Carsten Wegscheider, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Felix Petersen, Dr. Max Schulte, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein)
    Sonstige Lehrveranstaltungen

    Seminar
    Praktika
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [066860]
      (in cooperation with Dr. Manon Westphal, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Prof. Dr. Daniel Bischof, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Karen Siegel, Dr. Tobias Albrecht)
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [066859]
      (in cooperation with Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Max Schulte, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Inga Nüthen, Dr. Tobias Albrecht, Dr. Manon Westphal, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Prof. Dr. Daniel Bischof, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Karen Siegel)
    Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

    Seminar
    Praktikum
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [064868]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Dr. Markus Patberg, Dr. Max Schulte, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Tobias Albrecht, Prof. Dr. Antje Vetterlein, Dr. Carsten Wegscheider, Dr. Manon Westphal, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz, Dr. Felix Petersen, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Dr. Ivo Hernandez)
    Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

    Seminar
    Praktika
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [062075]
      (in cooperation with Dr. Tobias Gumbert, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Dr. Tobias Albrecht)
    • Praktikum: Internship report (Master) [062022]
      (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Wilde, Dr. Tobias Gumbert, Dr. Ulrich Hamenstädt, Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak, Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, apl. Prof. Christiane Frantz, Dr. Ivo Hernandez, Prof. Dr. Oliver Treib, Dr. Tobias Albrecht, Jun.-Prof. Antonia Graf, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietz, apl. Prof. Matthias Freise, Dr. Felix Petersen)
    Kolloquium
    Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung

  • Projects

    Selection

    • EXC 2060 B3-45 - Democratic Legitimacy of Strategic Litigation in the Context of Religion ( – )
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1

    Complete List

    • EXC 2060 B3-45 - Democratic Legitimacy of Strategic Litigation in the Context of Religion ( – )
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1
    • "Normative Challenges of the European Asylum System", interdisciplinary research group at Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld (with three co-applicants) ( – )
      Project Carried out outside the University Münster

  • Publications

    Books (Monographs)

    • . . Theorie und Gesellschaft, Die Grenzen des Demos. Mitgliedschaftspolitik aus postsouveräner Perspektive, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.

    Articles

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • . . “Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy.” American Journal of Political Science, № Online First doi: 10.1111/ajps.12981.
    • . . “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 (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. Frankfurt am Main: 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: 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.
    • . Forthcoming. “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.
    Reviews (Book Contributions)
    • . . “Institutionentheorie als Demokratiewissenschaft.” in 100 Jahre Politikwissenschaft in Hamburg, edited by Peter Niesen and David Weiß. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.

    Special Issues of Journals

    • 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 Articles)

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

  • Supervised Doctoral Study

    Christian Hegemony in Secular Courts? Legal Mobilization and Rights Advocacy by Christian Right Groups in the United States and Europe