Dr. Julia Simon
Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact
E-mail: jusimon@uni-bremen.de Phone.: +49 (0)421 / 218 67202 Office: GW2, Raum: B 2.210 | Adress Universität Bremen |
News
Dr Julia Simon will be substituting a professorship at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin during the winter semester 2024/2025. She can be reached via the following email address: julia.simon@fu-berlin.de.
Academic Employment
October 2023- present | Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute Professor (pro tempore) on leave from University of Bremen |
April 2023- September 2023 | Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Political Science Professor (pro tempore) on leave from Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg |
September 2022- February 2023 | University of California, Berkeley Visiting Researcher Institute of European Studies |
January 2020- September 2023 | Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Associate Institute of Political Science |
October 2013- December 2019 | Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg Research and Teaching Associate Institute of International Relations and Institute of Political Science |
February 2012- September 2013 | Trier University Research and Teaching Associate Institute of Political Science |
Polarization. In: Nai, Alessandro, Max Grömping, and Dominique Wirz (eds.): Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025, with Jakob Wiedekind. (The preprint of the entry that has been accepted for publication is available here.)
The Divided State of the States? Midterm Elections at the State Level, in: Duda, Renata and Maciej Turek (eds.): The Croassroads Election. 2022 Midterm and American Politics, London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 161-191, DOI: 10.4324/9781003440895-10, with Jared Sonnicksen.
A Conservative (R)Evolution? Constitutional–Political Crises, Trumpism, and Long-standing Trends of Conservative Transformations in the United States and Beyond, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly, 2024, 65(2): 213-232, DOI: 10.1007/s11615-023-00527-6.
Problematizing Modern Democracy in the United States: An ‘Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges’ in the Wake of the 2020 Presidential Election, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German PoliticalScience Quarterly, 2024, 65(2): 367-394, DOI: 10.1007/s11615‐023‐00486‐y.
The Crisis Discourse’s Blind Spot: EU‐level Politicization and the Endogenization of the Migration Crisis, in: Journal of European Integration, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2022.2143497.
Whose vulnerability? EU identity formation processes and the risks of migration, in: Jünemann, Annette, Nicolas Fromm, and Hamza Safouane (eds.): Power in Vulnerability: A Multi‐Dimensional Review of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2021, pp. 49‐69, DOI: 10.1007/978‐3‐658‐34052‐0_3.
European (dis)integration and the will to govern. An analysis of the multi‐layered EU subject‐identity formation processes in the context of migration, Dissertation Helmut Schmidt University, 2020
Camp Nationalism, in: Sus, Monika and Franziska Pfeifer (eds.): European Union in the World 2025. Scenarios for EU relations with its neighbours and strategic partners, Hertie School of Governance and LSE Ideas: Dahrendorf Analysis, Berlin, 2016, ISSN 2398-4759, with Sena Staufer and Isabelle Werenfels.
Euro-Mediterranean Political Cooperation for the Promotion of Democracy: Comparing Pre- and Post-Arab Spring Approaches, in: Neuss, Beate and Antje Nötzold (eds.): The Southern Mediterranean. Challenges to the European Foreign and Security Policy, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015, 15-44, ISBN-10: 3848716097.
Der Arabische Frühling. Eine Analyse der Determinanten europäischer Mittelmeerpolitik, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, Springer Essentials, 2015, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-07020-5, with Annette Jünemann.
The European Union and its Southern Mediterranean Neighbourhood: What kind of democracy promotion after the Arab Spring?, in: L´Europe en formation, No. 371, 2014, pp. 58-81, DOI: 10.3917/eufor.371.0058.
Dilemmata der Europäischen Demokratisierungspolitik. Zur Wiederentdeckung der Zivilgesellschaft in der EU-Mittelmeerpolitik nach den Arabellions, in: Reder, Michael and Mara-Daria Cojocaru (eds.): Zukunft der Demokratie. Ende einer Illusion oder Aufbruch zu neuen Formen? Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. pp. 78-100, with Annette Jünemann.
Europa und die Arabellions: Zur Wiederentdeckung der Zivilgesellschaft in der EU-Mittelmeerpolitik, in: Stratenschulte, Eckart D. (ed.): Grenzen der Integration. Europas strategische Ansätze für die Nachbarregionen. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 79-120, with Annette Jünemann.
Winter semester 2023-24
(Right-Wing) Populism in Europe [undergraduate seminar]
Politische Partizipation im Rahmen der Europäischen Union [undergraduate seminar]
Summer semester 2024
Polarization: A multifaceted phenomenon in the European Union [graduate seminar]
Democratic Backsliding and Illiberalisms in the European Union [undergraduate seminar]