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Lars Rensmann, DPhil, is DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science. His position is sponsored by the University of Michigan and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He came to Ann Arbor in the fall of 2006. Professor Rensmann teaches in the areas of modern political theory, European integration & European comparative politics, and German politics. Professor Rensmann is the author and editor of six books, including most recently Populists in Power: Populist Parties in Government in Eastern and Western Europe (Vienna: Braumüller Press, 2005); with Susanne Frölich-Steffen, [in German]) and Post-National Democratic Theory: Models of European Political Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Global Age (forthcoming 2007). He has also published widely on political theory and German & European politics in refereed journals such as the European Journal of Political Theory, German Politics and Society, Patterns of Prejudice, Political Studies, Political Science, the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, and the Journal of Contemporary History, and in dozens of edited volumes. Lars Rensmann graduated with distinction from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa (B.A. in Political Science) and from the Free University of Berlin, Germany (M.A. in Political Science). He holds a doctoral degree (Dphil) with distinction (“summa cum laude”) from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin. Rensmann is also Affiliate Professor at the University of Haifa and Permanent Fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam. Before coming to Michigan, Rensmann was Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin & the University of Potsdam. He also held several other previous research & teaching appointments, for instance as Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley; Visiting Fellow and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), Yale University; Guest Lecturer at the Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History & Society, University of Haifa; Lecturer at the Departments of Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & at the University of Vienna; Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna. Professor Rensmann is especially interested in contemporary democratic theory and the history of European political ideas, European party systems & comparative party politics (in particular new extreme right and populist parties), and in various issues of contemporary German politics. His expertise in political theory & comparative politics is also reflected in the research he is pursuing at the University of Michigan. Rensmann’s current work focuses on one hand, on theorizing the changing conditions and normative paradoxes of liberal democracies in the context of globalization, post-nationalization, and, for that matter, Europeanization & the European Union; on the other hand, Rensmann is working on new populist parties in European party systems. In addition, Professor Rensmann is particularly seeking to support and advise all students interested in the experience of studying in Germany. Selected Publications
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