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Members of the Institute
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Associated Academics
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John Dryzek is Centenary Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance. Before moving to the University of Canberra he was Distinguished Professor of Political
Science and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, former Head of the Departments of Political Science at the
Universities of Oregon and Melbourne and of the Social and Political Theory program at ANU, and former editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science. In a 2010 poll of American political theorists he was listed in
their top 20 scholars doing excellent work today whose work will be influential during the next 20 years, and was the most highly ranked
scholar based outside North America.
Working in both political theory and empirical social science, he is best known for his contributions in the areas of democratic theory and practice and environmental politics. One of the instigators of the 'deliberative turn' in democratic theory, he has published five books in this area with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Polity Press. His work in environmental politics ranges from green political philosophy to studies of environmental discourses and movements to global climate governance, and he has published five books in this area with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Basil Blackwell. He has also worked on comparative studies of democratization, post-positivist public policy analysis, and the history and philosophy of social science. His current research emphasizes global environmental justice, governance in the Anthropocene (a new era of instability in the Earth system), and cultural variety in deliberative practice. |
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Itay Fischhendler is Associated Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the department of geography. His research interests focus on environmental
conflict resolution, natural resources management, governance, and decision making under the conditions of political and environmental uncertainties. He is a
leading scholar on transboundary water institutions and Middle East water issues. Recently, Itay has been working on projects involving transboundary energy
conflicts including analyzing the design of economic energy sanctions. He has published over than 30 articles in public policy, conflict resolution, peace
studies, geography, ecological economics, and environmental journals.
He has also been teaching on Environmental Justice in a Trans-boundary Space to strengthen the conditions for cooperation and long term environmental planning across boundaries in Jerusalem and empowering marginalized stakeholders, while at the same time educating students for social responsibility and action through interdisciplinary use of scientific, planning, and legal tools. |
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Götz Kaufmann graduated in political science (2003) and obtained a doctoral degree in environmental sociology (2012) at Free University
Berlin. He received his first Staatsexamen (state exam) from Justus Liebig University in Giessen (2018) in the field of Anglophone studies (English as a foreign language) and Politics & Economy and the second state exam
from Brandenburg's Ministerium für Bildung, Jugend und Sport in 2019. He is currently working on his habilitation project CC-VISAGES.
From 2012 to 2016, he was an associated researcher at Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) of Free University Berlin. He was visiting lecturer at the Institute for Political Science of the Phillips University Marburg in 2017 and member of the Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies from 2017-2018. He is member of the editorial board of the journal Environmental Justice since 2016. He held professional research posts in Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Israel, and Canada working on topics such as environmental justice, sustainable development, globalization, political economy, political ecology, and climate change. His overall field of expertise are methods. His extended research interests cover corporate social responsibility, indigenous rights, and sustainability in the context of the new Trumpism in the world (Rassemblement National, BREXIT, AfD in Germany, Donald Trump and US Democracy). He is the founder of the Environmental Justice Institute (EJI)in 2014, and is head of the research project CC-VISAGES. Working at the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU), he taught courses on environmental justice, sustainable development, social movements, and environmental policy in Brazil, Germany, and Canada. On behalf of the EJI, he gave synchronous e-lectures with students and guest lecturers from around the world, like the one in winter term 2017 on environmental justice and sustainable development at Phillips University of Marburg (see above). |
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Miranda Schreurs is full Professor for Environment and Climate Policy at the Bavarian School of Public Policy (Hochschule fur Politik München) of Technical University of Munich since 2016. Prior to this she was the director of the
Environmental Policy Research Centre and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin and
before she worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. Schreurs' work focuses on comparative environmental politics and policy in Europe, the US, and East Asia. She
was born and raised in the United States and has also lived for extended periods in Japan and Germany and briefly in the Netherlands. Her PhD is from the University of Michingan and her MA and BA from the University of
Washington. She has also spent time researching or teaching at Harvard University, Utrecht University, the Freie Universität Berlin, Keio University, Chuo University, and Rikkyo University and has held fellowships from
the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program on International Peace and Security Affairs, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Johanna Seidel graduated in Geographical Sciences in 2009 at the University of Würzburg. She has worked as a research assistant at the
University of Applied Sciences Deggendorf being involved in the Project collaboration "RiskMap - Improving Flood Risk Maps as a Means to Foster Public Participation and Raising Flood Risk Awareness: Toward Flood Resilient
Communities" which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the EU initiative Crue ERA-NET.
Since January 2012 she is working as a lecturer for special tasks at the Freie Universität Berlin at the department of earth sciences. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Environmental Justice Institute (EJI), mainly dealing with data collection, processing and graphical presentation via GIS (Geographical Information Systems). |
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Bastian Stössel graduated in Geographical Sciences, Botany, and Statistics in 2009 at the University of Würzburg. He has worked as
a research assistant at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Federal Institute for Cultivated Plants (JKI) being involved in the Project "Innovation Network Climate Adaptation Berlin-Brandenburg".
After that he worked as a researcher and coordinator at the Freie Universität Berlin for the "Pilot project cooperation with the botanical garden Bogotá". He has written a PhD thesis with the title "Weather-disease
relationships and future disease potential of leaf rust and powdery mildew in Saxony-Anhalt" during his time at the PIK.
From 2015 to 2016 he has been a member of the Environmental Justice Institute (EJI), mainly supporting the CC-VISAGES> team as a consultant for climate and climate change related questions in addition to data collection and processing of meteorological data. |
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