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	Born 1972 in Darmstadt, West Germany.

	Education
July 2007	Defence of PhD thesis. Cumulative grade: Magna Cum Laude.
July 2006	Submission of PhD thesis.Title: Autoritärer Etatismus im Neoliberalismus. Zur Rekonstruktion und Relevanz eines staatstheoretischen Konzepts von Nicos Poulantzas. [Authoritarian Statism in the Neoliberal Era. On the Reconstruction and Relevance of one Nicos Poulantzas’s State Theoretical Concepts] First examiner and supervisor: Prof. Joachim Hirsch. Second examiner: Prof. Bob Jessop (Lancaster, UK).
2001 – 2006	PhD, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt/Main.
Nov. 2000	Graduation (Magister Artium). Dissertation title: Zwischen Staatsableitung und strukturalem Marxismus. Zur Rekonstruktion der staatstheoretischen Debatten der siebziger Jahre. [Between State Derivation and Structural Marxism. A Reconstruction of the State Theoretical Debates of the 1970s] First examiner and supervisor: Prof. Hirsch. Second examiner: Prof. Josef Esser, both University of Frankfurt/Main. Final grade: Very good (first class).
1992 – 2000	Magister Artium Political Science (major), History (Medieval and Modern History), American Studies (American History and Society), University of Frankfurt/Main.
	Academic Employment
Since Oct. 2015	Associate Professor (W2) for Political Economy of Germany and the European Union, Department of Political Science, University of Marburg. Lifetime tenure since Oct. 2018.
Sept. – Dec. 2013	DAAD-Visiting Professor at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Department for Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Oct. 2009 – Oct. 2015	Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor, W1) for European Integration and Political Economy, Department of Politicial Science, University of Marburg.
April – October 2009	Full-time Researcher in a project funded by the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt/Main: The Transnationalisation of the State in the process of the Europeanization of Migration Control Policies. Project procurement with Dr. Sonja Buckel and Dr. Jens Wissel. Original time frame: April 2009-April 2011; extended until October 2012.
March 2008 – April 2009	Supervisor for teaching assistants, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt/Main.
April 2007 – March 2008	Sessional Lecturer at the Departments of Political Science, University of Frankfurt/Main and University of Marburg.
March 2002 – Sept. 2006	Research and Teaching Assistant to Prof. Hirsch, Department of Political Science, University of Frankfurt/Main.
March 2001 – Sept. 2001	Data Processing Assistant, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt/Main.
1998-2002	Adviser for first year students, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Frankfurt/Main.
Sept. 1995 – Sept. 1997	Research Assistant in the project Debordering the World of States (Prof. Lothar Brock, Department of Political Science, University of Frankfurt/Main).
	Academic Responsibilities
Since April 2018	Dean of Studies, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Marburg.
Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2017	Chair of the faculty’s examination board, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Marburg.
Oct. 2016 – Oct. 2017	Executive Director, Department of Politicial Science, University of Marburg.
Oct. 2015 – Oct. 2017	Vice-Executive Director, Department of Politicial Science, University of Marburg.
Nov. 2012-Aug. 2013	Chair of the faculty’s examination board, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Marburg.
Oct. 2011 – Nov. 2012	Deputy chair of the faculty’s examination board, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Marburg.
Since Oct. 2010	Member of the faculty’s examination board, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Marburg.
Since Oct. 2009	Member of the board, Department of Politicial Science, University of Marburg.
Oct. 2009 – April 2011	Co-ordinator and member of the examination board of the MA: European Integration & Globalisation at the University of Marburg.
Oct. 2004 –Oct. 2005	Academic mid-level faculty assistants representative at the Department of Political Science, University of Frankfurt/Main.
	Teaching Experience (Marburg University)
Summer 2019	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Marx’ Critique of Political Economy Seminar (M.A.): The Dialectic of Democracy & Capitalism (tog. with Prof. S. Buckel, Kassel University)
Winter 2018-19	Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Historical Materialist State Theory Seminar (M.A.): State Project Europe. Relationships of Forces in European Migration Politics Seminar (M.A.): Changes of Capitalism, changes of Unionism in International Perspective
Summer 2018	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Marx’ Critique of Political Economy Seminar (M.A.): Transformation and Crisis of Global Capitalism (tog. with Prof. B. Sauer, Prof. U. Brand, Vienna Univ.; Prof. Buckel, Kassel Univ.; Prof. Belina, Frankfurt Univ.)
Winter 2017-18	Sabbatical, stay in Toronto
Summer 2017	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Marx’ Critique of Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): The Political Economy of European Integration Seminar (M.A.): State, Law and Democracy in Crisis (tog. with Prof. Buckel, Kassel Univ.; Prof. Belina, Frankfurt Univ.)
Winter 2016-17	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to Political Science (first term lecture) Seminar (B.A.): The European Union: History, Institutions, Theoretical Debate Seminar (M.A.): State, Democracy and Crisis of Social Reproduction (tog. with Prof. Buckel, Kassel Univ.; Prof. Brand, Vienna Univ.)
Summer 2016	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to Political Economy (tog. with Prof. A. Henninger) Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Marx’ Critique of Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): Unions and Unionism (tog. with Prof. A. Henninger) Seminar (M.A.): State, Democracy and EU in Crisis (tog. with Prof. Buckel, Kassel Univ.; Prof. Belina, Frankfurt Univ.)
Winter 2015-16	Seminar (B.A.): Classical Marxist Theory: Introduction to Historical Materialist State Theory
Summer 2015	Seminar (B.A.): The European Union: History, Institutions, Theoretical Debate
Winter 2014-15	Seminar (B.A.): Classical Marxist Theory: Introduction to Historical Materialist State Theory
Winter 2014-15	Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to the history, institutions and theories of European Integration (in English) Seminar (M.A.): State, law and democracy in crisis (together with Prof. Buckel, Kassel University)
Summer 2014	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to the Political Economy of Germany (Lecture series, with Prof. Annette Henninger, Prof. Claudia Derichs, Prof. Thomas Noetzel, Prof. Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten, Prof. Ingrid Kurz-Scherf, Prof. Hubert Zimmermann) Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to Marx’s critique of political economy Seminar (B.A.): The political theory of Wolfgang Abendroth (with Prof. Henninger)
Winter 2013-14	Seminar (M.A.): The Debate on the Internationalisation of the State
	As Visiting Professor (York University, Toronto, Canada)
Fall Term 2013	Seminar (B.A.): The European Union: History, Institutions, Theoretical Debate Seminar (B.A.): Classical Marxist Theory: Introduction to Historical Materialist State Theory
Winter 2012-13	Seminar (B.A.): European Integration: Theory & History Seminar (B.A.): The ‘Euro Crisis’: Historical and theoretical backgrounds
Summer 2012	Seminar (M.A.): The European State Project: Relationships of Forces in European Migration Policies (Research Seminar), Part II Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to the Political Economy of Germany (Lecture series, with Prof. Henninger, Prof. Derichs, Prof. Noetzel, Prof. Koch-Baumgarten, Prof. Kurz-Scherf, Prof. Zimmermann) Feminist Perspectives on the European State Project (Seminar of the European Integration Research Group, with Dr. Gundula Ludwig, and Nikolai Huke)
Winter 2011-12	Seminar (B.A.): European Integration in the context of Historical Materialist State Theory Seminar (M.A.): The European State Project: Relationships of Forces in European Migration Policies (Research Seminar), Part I The Crisis of the EU in the light of Critical Integration Theories (Seminar of the European Integration Research Group, with Nikolai Huke and Nina Ulbrich)
Summer2011	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to the Political Economy of Germany (Lecture series, with Prof. Henninger, Prof. Derichs, Prof. Noetzel, Prof. Koch-Baumgarten, Prof. Kurz-Scherf, Prof. Zimmermann) Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): The Political Economy of Germany & UK in a comparative perspective (in English)
Winter 2010-11	Seminar (B.A.): European Integration: Theories and History Seminar (B.A.): The Political Economy of European Integration
Summer 2010	Lecture (B.A.): Introduction to the Political Economy of Germany (Lecture series, with Prof. Henninger, Prof. Noetzel, Prof. Koch-Baumgarten, Prof. Kurz-Scherf, Prof. Zimmermann) Seminar (B.A.): The Political Economy of Germany & UK in comparison Seminar (B.A.): European Migration Policies (in English)
Winter 2009-10	Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy Seminar (B.A.): Introduction to the History and Theories of European Integration
	As a Sessional Lecturer [Lehrbeauftragter]
Winter 2008-9	Seminars (University of Marburg): Empire Europe? Fortress Europe? European Migration Policies in a Comparative Perspective (in English)
Summer 2008	Seminars (University of Frankfurt/Main): Introduction to Marx: Reading Capital, vol. 1 The Transnationalisation of Statehood, Politics and Law (with Prof. Esser, Prof. Hirsch, Dr. Buckel)
	Seminars (University of Marburg): The Political Economy of the United Kingdom and Germany in a Comparative Perspective (in English) The Transformation von Statehood: The European Union in the context of Globalization
Winter 2007-8	Seminars (University of Marburg): Fortress Europe? European Migration Policies in a Comparative Perspective (in English) The History and Theory of European Integration Seminar (University of Frankfurt/Main): Theories of Rationalization (with Prof. Tilla Siegel)
Summer 2007	Seminar (University of Marburg): The Political Economy of the United Kingdom and Germany in a Comparative Perspective Seminar (University of Frankfurt/Main): The State and Democracy in Global Capitalism (with Prof. Hirsch)
	As a Graduate Teaching Assistant [Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter] (University of Frankfurt/Main)
Winter 2005-6	A New Kind of Statehood? Multi-Level Governance and the Transformation of the State in the European Union (with J. Wissel)
Summer 2005	Classes and Social Inequality in Capitalism – Today (with Prof. Esser and J. Wissel)
Winter 2004-5	Introduction to Marx: Reading Capital, vol. I
Summer 2004	On the relevance of Gramsci’s Theory of Hegemony and the State (with Prof. Esser and J. Wissel)
Winter 2003-04	Current Problems in Historical Materialist State Theory (with J. Wissel)
Summer 2003	The State Theory of Nicos Poulantzas (with Prof. Hirsch, J. Wissel)
Winter 2002-3	Globalization and the Transformation of Rule and Hegemony (with Prof. Hirsch and J. Wissel) The Internationalisation of Law (with S. Buckel, U. Brand, Chr. Görg, J. Esser, J. Hirsch, J. Wissel)

Funded Research

Thyssen Foundation: Das politische Projekt ‚Europäische Bankenunion’. Zur Rolle von ‚Systemrelevanz’ im neuen Finanzmarktregime der Europäischen Union [The political project ‚European banking union’. On ‚systemic relevance’ in the financial market regime of the European Union], together with Dr. Andreas Kallert. Time frame 4/2018 – 3/2019: Around 26.000,00 €.
German Research Council (DFG): Die Transnationalisierung des Staates im Prozess der Entstehung einer gemeinsameneuropäischen Migrationskontrollpolitik [The Transnationalisation of the State in the process of the Europeanization of Migration Control Policies], together with Dr. Sonja Buckel and Dr. Jens Wissel. Original time frame: 4/2009 – 4/2011; extended until 10/2012.: Around 1 Mio. €.
Hans-Böckler Foundation: Conference Funding: Ambivalenzen regionaler Identitäten und Kulturen. Globalisierungskritik, Wettbewerbsregionalismus und politische Handlungsoptionen. [Ambivalences of regional identities and cultures. Globalisation critique, Competitive regionalism and political options.] Universität Marburg, 3.-4.12.2010: € 3000,-

Publications

Monograph

Autoritärer Etatismus im Neoliberalismus. Zur Staatstheorie von Nicos Poulantzas. [Authoritarian Statism in the Neoliberal Era. On the State Theory of Nicos Poulantzas] Hamburg: VSA 2006. [pdf]
L’Europe des Flux. Migration, travail et crise de l’Union Européenne, Préface de Sandro Mezzadra (with Sonja Buckel/ Fabian Georgi/Jens Wissel), Les Lilas: Eterotopia 2017.

Edited Books

Der Staat der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Zum Staatsverständnis im Anschluss an Karl Marx [The State of Bourgeois Society. Understanding the State by drawing upon Marx] (ed. with Joachim Hirsch and Jens Wissel). Baden-Baden: Nomos 2015 in the series Staatsverständnisse ed. by Rüdiger Voigt, 2nd revised edition.
Kämpfe um Migrationspolitik. Theorie, Methode und Analysen kritischer Europaforschung. [Struggles about Migrationpolicies. Theory, Method and Analyses of critical research about the EU] (with the research group ‘State Project Europe’). Bielefeld: Transcript 2014. [pdf]
Die Krise der EU. Zwischen Autoritärem Etatismus und Europäischen Frühling [The Crisis of the EU. Between Authoritarian Statism and European Spring] (with the research group ‘State Project Europe’). Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2012. [pdf]
Reading Poulantzas. On the Contemporary Relevance of Marxist State Theory (with Alexander Gallas/Lars Bretthauer/Ingo Stützle). London: Merlin Press 2011.
Der Staat der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Zum Staatsverständnis im Anschluss an Karl Marx [The State of Bourgeois Society. Understanding the State by drawing upon Marx] (with Joachim Hirsch and Jens Wissel). Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008 in the series Staatsverständnisse ed. by Rüdiger Voigt. [pdf]
Poulantzas lesen. Zur Aktualität marxistischer Staatstheorie (with Lars Bretthauer/Alexander Gallas/Ingo Stützle). Hamburg: VSA 2006. [pdf]

Journal Articles

»Von der Staatsableitung zum Europäischen Staatsapparate-Ensemble. Grundzüge und Debatten der materialistischen Staatstheorie« [From the state derivation debate to an European ensemble of state apparatuses. Basic guidelines and debates of materialist state theory], in: Widersprüche 144, 2/2017, 11-23.
»Kräfteverhältnisse in der Eurokrise: Konfliktdynamiken im bundesdeutschen ‘Block an der Macht’« [Relationships of forces in the Eurocrisis: Conflicts and dynamics in the German ‘Power Bloc’] (together with Fabian Georgi), in: Prokla 180, 3/2015, 349-69.
»Varieties of Capitalism or Varieties of Relationships of Forces? Outlines of a Historical Materialist Policy Analysis« (together with Fabian Georgi), in: Capital and Class, Vol. 38, No. 1, 59-71 (peer-reviewed). [Abstract]
»Kräfteverhältnisse in der Eurokrise: Konfliktdynamiken im bundesdeutschen ‘Block an der Macht’« [Relationships of forces in the Eurocrisis: Conflicts and dynamics in the German ‘Power Bloc’] (together with Fabian Georgi), in: Prokla 180, 3/2015, 349-69.
»The Spaces of Capital: The Political Form of Capitalism and the Internationalisation of the State« (together with Joachim Hirsch), in: Antipode. A Radical Journal of Geography. Vol. 43, Issue 1, Januar 2011, 12-37 (peer-reviewed). [Abstract]
»Zur politischen Ökonomie der inneren Sicherheit und ihres Wandels« [On the Political Economy of Homeland Security and its Changes], at: www.rechtprogressiv.de, 05/2009. [pdf]
»Staat und Neoliberalismus – ein Widerspruch in sich?« [The state and neo-liberalism – a contradictio in adjecto?], in: Zukunft. Die Diskussionszeitschrift für Politik, Gesellschaft und Kultur, 09/2009, 20-26. [Link]
»Konjunkturen der Inneren Sicherheit. Vom Fordismus zum Neoliberalismus« [Conjunctures of Homeland Security. From Fordism to Neo-Liberalism], in: Prokla 152, 2008, 413-427. [pdf]
»Autoritärer Etatismus und Populismus der Neuen Mitte« [Authoritarian Statism and the Populism of Neue Mitte], at: www.links-netz.de, 10/2007. [pdf]
»Zur Kritik der Anti-Terror-Gesetze nach dem 11. September. Sicherheit im posfordistischen Präventionsstaat« [A critique of Anti-Terror Legislation after 9-11. Security in the Post-Fordist Prevention State] (with Sonja Buckel) in: Das Argument 244, 2002, 34-50.

Book Chapters/Working Papers

»Von der Staatsableitung zur Formanalyse. Zur formanalytischen Begründung des Staates bei Joachim Hirsch – und der Notwendigkeit einer rechtsformanalytischen Erweiterung« [From State Derivation to Form-analysis. On Joachim Hirsch’s form-analytical foundations – and the necessity of the legal form] (with Sonja Buckel), in: Ulrich Brand/Chrisoph Görg (Eds.): Zur Aktualität der Staatsform. Die materialistische Staatstheorie von Joachim Hirsch. [On the Topicality of the State-Form. Joachim Hirsch’s Materialist State Theory] Baden-Baden: Nomos 2018 in the series Staatsverständnisse ed. by Rüdiger Voigt, 49-72.
»Materialistische Staatstheorie« [Materialist State Theory], in: Rüdiger Voigt (Ed.): Handbuch Staat, Vol.1. [Handbook State, vol.1] Wiesbaden: Springer 2018, 199-211.
»The European Border Regime in Crisis. Theory, Methods and Analyses in Critical European Studies« (with Sonja Buckel/Fabian Georgi/Jens Wissel), Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 2017.
»Der Verfall der Demokratie: Autoritärer Etatismus. Zur Aktualität von Nicos Poulantzas im Kontext der Finanz- und Eurokrise« [The Decline of Democracy: Authoritarian Statism. The topicality of Poulantzas in the context of the financial- and Eurocrisis], in: Alex Demirovic (Ed.): Transformation der Demokratie, demokratische Transformation. [Transformation of Democracy, Democratic Transformation] Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2016, 35-48.
»Nicos Poulantzas als revolutionärer Staatsdenker« [Nicos Poulantzas as revolutionary theorist of the state], in: Rüdiger Voigt (Ed.): Staatsdenken. Zum Stand der Staatstheorie heute. [Thinking about the State. State Theory today] Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016, 193-197.
»Theorie, Methoden und Analysen kritischer Europaforschung« [Theory, Methods and Analyses of Critical Approaches to European Integration] (together with Sonja Buckel, Fabian Georgi, Jens Wissel), in: Kämpfe um Migrationspolitik [Struggles about Migrationpolicies] Bielefeld: Transcript 2014, 15-86. [pdf]
»Kräfteverhältnisse in der bundesdeutschen Migrationspolitik. Die Asyldebatte als Schlüsselereignis des schwerfälligen Wandels vom Gastarbeitsregime zu Managed Migration in der BRD« [Relationships of Forces in German Migrationpolicies. The Debate on Asylum as a Key to Germany’s reluctant transformation from the Guestworking Regime to Managed Migration], in: Kämpfe um Migrationspolitik [Struggles about Migrationpolicies] Bielefeld: Transcript 2014, 93-112. [pdf]
»Die Eurokrise zwischen miteinander ringenden Hegemonieprojekten und Autoritärem Etatismus« [The Eurocrisis between competing Hegemony Projects and Authoritarian Statism], in: Andreas Eis/Harald Büsing/Manfred Klöpper (Ed.): Demokratie in der Krise – Krisenpolitik und demokratische Legitimation [Democracy in Crisis – Crisis Policies and Democratic Legitimation], Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag 2013, 17-34. [pdf]
»Das Staatsprojekt Europa in der Krise. Die EU zwischen autoritärer Verhärtung und linken Alternativen« [The State Project Europe in Crisis. The EU between auhoritarian developments and left wing alternatives] (together with Fabian Georgi], in: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Brüssel, www.rosalux-europa.info, Oktober 2012. [pdf]
»Kräfteverhältnisse in der europäischen Krise« [Relationship of Forces in the European Crisis] (together with Sonja Buckel/Fabian Georgi/Jens Wissel], in: Research Group ‚State Project Europe’ (Eds.): Die Krise der EU. Zwischen Autoritärem Etatismus und Europäischen Frühling [The Crisis of the EU. Between Authoritarian Statism and European Spring] Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2012, 12-49. [pdf]
»Die europäische Integration als materielle Verdichtung von Kräfteverhältnissen: Hegemonieprojekte im Kampf um das ‚Staatsprojekt Europa’« [European Integration as the Material Condensation of Relationship of Forces: Hegemony Projects competing within the ‚State Project Europe’] (together Fabian Georgi), Working Paper of the Forschungsgruppe Europäische Integration, FEI, Nr. 30, Marburg 2012. [pdf]
»Poulantzas and Form-Analysis. On the Relationship of two approaches to Marxist State Theory« (together with J. Hirsch), in: Alexander Gallas/Lars Bretthauer/John Kannankulam/Ingo Stützle (Eds.): Reading Poulantzas. On the Contemporary Relevance of Marxist State Theory. London: Merlin Press 2011.
»Staat und Neoliberalismus – ein Widerspruch? Oder: Warum die aktuelle Wirtschaftskrise nur scheinbar den Bruch mit dem herrschenden politökonomischen Paradigma bedeutet« [The State and Neo-Liberalism – a contradiction? Or: why the current economic crisis is no real rupture within the dominant economic paradigm], in: Lotz, Mathias/van der Minde, Matthias/Weidmann, Dirk (Hg.): Von Platon bis Global Governance. Entwürfe für menschliches Zusammenleben. Marburg: Tectum 2010, 179-190.
»The Spaces of Capital: The Political Form of Capitalism and the Internationalisation of the State« (together with Joachim Hirsch), in: Globalization and Regionalization in our Time, Vol. II, edited by T. Shinoda et al., Ochanomizusyobo, Tokyo, 2009 (in Japanese).
»Die Räume des Kapitals. Die politische Form des Kapitalismus in der ‚Internationalisierung’ des Staates« [The Spaces of Capital: The Political Form of Capitalism and the Internationalisation of the State] (together with Joachim Hirsch), in: Hartmann, Eva/Kunze, Caren/Brand, Ulrich (Hg.): Globalisierung, Macht und Hegemonie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2009, 181-211. [pdf]
»Zur westdeutschen Staatsableitungsdebatte der siebziger Jahre. Hintergründe, Positionen, Kritiken« [The West German State Derivation Debate: Backgrounds, Positions and Critique], in: Associazione delle Talpe/Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung Bremen (Hg.): Staatsfragen. Einführungen in die materialistische Staatskritik. Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung 2009, 42-57. [pdf]
»Staat, Nation und Hegemonie« [The State, the Nation and Hegemony] (with Robin Mohan), in: Projektgruppe Nationalismuskritik (Hg.): Irrsinn der Normalität, Aspekte der Reartikulation des deutschen Nationalismus. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2009, 41-60. [pdf]
»Autoritärer Etatismus. Elemente eines staats- und krisentheoretischen Konzepts von Nicos Poulantzas« [Authoritarian Statism: Elements of a State Theoretical Concept of Nicos Poulantzas], in: Demirović, Alex/ Adolphs, Stephan/Karakayali, Serhat (Eds.): Das Staatsverständnis von Nicos Poulantzas. Der Staat als gesellschaftliches Verhältnis. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2009, 223-239. [pdf]
»Autoritärer Etatismus im Neoliberalismus« [Authoritarian Statism in Neo-Liberalism], in: Wissel, Jens/Wöhl, Stefanie (Eds.): Staatstheorie vor neuen Herausforderungen. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot 2008, 145-165. [pdf]
»Die Staatstheorie des ›westlichen Marxismus‹. Gramsci, Althusser, Poulantzas und die so genannte Staatsableitung« [The State Theory of Western Marxism. Gramsci, Althusser, Poulantzas and the so-called State Derivation] (together with Joachim Hirsch & Jens Wissel), in: Hirsch, Joachim/Kannankulam, John/Wissel, Jens (Hg.): Der Staat der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, 92-115. [pdf]
»Einleitung: Marx, Marxismus und die Frage des Staates« [Introduction: Marx, Marxism and the Question of the State] (together with Joachim Hirsch & Jens Wissel), in: Hirsch, Joachim/Kannankulam, John/Wissel, Jens (Hg.): Der Staat der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2008, 9-22.
»Poulantzas und Formanalyse. Zum Verhältnis zweier Ansätze materialistischer Staatstheorie.« [Poulantzas and Form-Analysis. On the Relationship of two approaches to Marxist State Theory.] (together with J. Hirsch), in: Bretthauer, Lars/Gallas, Alexander/Kannankulam, John/Stützle, Ingo (eds.): Poulantzas Lesen. Zur Aktualität marxistischer Staatstheorie. [Reading Poulantzas. On the Relevance of Marxist State Theory] Hamburg: 2006. [pdf]
Entry: »Innere Bourgeoisie« [Interior Bourgeoisie] (with Jens Wissel) in: Wolfgang Fritz Haug (ed.): Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 6 II, Hamburg 2004, 1136-1141.
»Über so Verworrenes wie Hochschule, Krise und Streik« [On Things as Tangled-Up as the Universities, Crises and Strikes] (with Christian Sälzer) in: Görg, Christoph/Roth, Roland (eds.): Kein Staat zu machen. Zur politischen Relevanz der Sozialwissenschaften, Münster 1998, 196-212. [pdf]

Reviews/Translations

Review of Hartmann, Eva: Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen Hochschulraum. Konsequenzen für die Konstitutionalisierung internationaler Politik, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2011, at: www.links-netz.de, Sept. 2013. [pdf]
Review of Bojadzijev, Manuela: Die windige Internationale. Rassismus und Kämpfe der Migration, in: TAZ v. 11.07.2009.
Review of Teschke, Benno: Mythos 1648. Klassen, Geoplitik und die Entstehung des europäischen Staatensystems, in: Das Argument 282, 2009, 704-706.
Review of Demirović, Alex: Nicos Poulantzas. Aktualität und Probleme materialistischer Staatstheorie. Münster 2007, in: Das Argument 275, 2008, 304-306. [pdf]
Review of Kohlmorgen, Lars: Regulation, Klasse, Geschlecht. Die Konstituierung der Sozialstruktur im Fordismus und Postfordismus, in: Diskus. Frankfurter StudentInnen Zeitschrift, Nr. 1, 2005. [Link]
Review of Alnasseri, Sabah: Periphere Regulation. Regulationstheoretische Konzepte zur Analyse von Entwicklungsstrategien im arabischen Raum. Münster 2004 (together with J. Wissel) in: Peripherie. Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, Nr. 257, 2004, 524-525.
Review of Nicos Poulantzas: Staatstheorie. Hamburg 2002 (together with J. Wissel) in: Das Argument 248, 2002, 879-880.
Translation of Bob Jessop: »Informationskapitalismus und Empire: Das postmarxistische Loblied auf die US-Hegemonie in einer neuen Weltordnung« in: Das Argument 248, 2002, 777-790.

Research Visits/Travel

June 1991 – Sept. 1991	Journey to & around India
Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006	Research visit at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK.
Sept. 2013 – Dec. 2013	DAAD-Visiting Professor at the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Memberships/Additional Activities

Member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft [German Association of Political Science]
Founding Member of the Assoziation für kritische Gesellschaftsforschung [Association for Critical Social Sciences]
Member of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association
Member of the International Studies Association
Member of the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft [Higher Education Union].
Member of the Bund Demokratischer WissenschaftlerInnen [League of Democratic Scientists]
Editorial member of the internet magazine www.links-netz.de
Lead singer of the traditional ska band Ska Trek since 1991

Languages

Malayalam & German (native languages), English (first foreign language), French (second foreign language), Spanish (third foreign language).