CV

 

EDUCATION

Yale University (2011-present)

  • Ph.D. in Political Science 2017 (expected)
  • Dissertation title: The Politics of Non-Indifference: Max Weber’s Challenge and Karl Jaspers’s Response
  • Advisors: Seyla Benhabib (chair), Karuna Mantena, Philip Gorski, Maeve Cooke

University of Chicago (2009-2010)

  • M.A. in the Social Sciences 2010
  • Thesis: Zionism Reconsidered – Marx and Levinas on Humanism and the Possibility of Ethics
  • Advisor: Patchen Markell

Freie Universität Berlin (2003-2009)

  • M.A. in Political Science, B.A. in Psychology and Political Science
  • M.A. Thesis: The Lie and the Political: Freedom and Security in a State of Prevention.
  • B.A. Thesis: “The Torture Scandals of Abu Ghraib – A Socio-Psychological Perspective.”

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

PUPLICATIONS (for more information, see tab “publications”)

  • Books: 

Carmen Dege, Die Lüge und das Politische. Freiheit und Sicherheit in der Präventationsgesellschaft, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2010. [The Lie and the Political. Freedom and Security in a State of Prevention]

  • Edited Volumes: 

Martin Dege, Carmen Dege et al. (eds.), Können Marginalisierte (wi(e)der)sprechen? Zum politischen Potenzial der Sozialwissenschaften, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2010. [Can the Marginalized Speak? The Political Potential of the Social Sciences]

Friedrich Arendt, Carmen Dege et al. (eds.), Ordnungen im Wandel: Globale und lokale Wirklichkeiten im Spiegel transdisziplinärer Analysen, Berlin: Transcript, 2008. [Changing Orders: Global and Local Realities in Transdisciplinary Analyses]

  • Journal Publications:

Carmen Dege, “Foucault and Humanism: Meditations on an Ethos of Limit,” Journal of Political Thought, vol. 1, no. 1, 2015, 18-36.

Carmen Dege, “Der arabische Frühling in Ägypten und die Entstehung von Alternativen zum westlich-liberalen Demokratiekonzept,” Psychology & Gesellschaftskritik, vol. 35, no. 4, 2011, 89-111. [“The Arab Spring in Egypt and the Emergence of Alternatives to the Liberal Concept of Democracy”]

Jacob Belzen, Carmen Dege, and Martin Dege, eds., “Das Comeback der Religionspsychologie,” Journal für Psychologie 16, no. 3 (2008), http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp-3-2008.html.

Mark Freeman, “Wissenschaft und Narration,” trans. Martin Dege and Carmen Dege, Journal für Psychologie 15, no. 2 (2007), http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp-2-2007-5.html.

  • Translations:

John Ackermann and Bonnie Honig, “Die Spielarten der Agonalität – eine Geschichte in Kontexten,” in Arendt-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, ed. Wolfgang Heuer, Bernd Heiter, and Stefanie Rosenmüller, trans. Carmen Dege, Weimar: Metzler, 2011.

  • Working Papers:

“Diversity in Unity in Disenchanted Times: Max Weber’s Challenge and Karl Jaspers’s Response”

“The Metaphysics of a Post-Metaphysical Politics – Karl Jaspers’s Immanent Critique of Neo-Kantianism.”

“Between Immanence and Transcendence: Karl Jaspers and Charles Taylor on the Axial Age.”

“Karl Jaspers and Critical Theory: A History of Missed Encounters.”

 

SELECTED WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Presentation, “Liberalism, Secularity, and Difference: Weber’s Challenge and Jaspers’s Response,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, August 2018.
  • Presentation, “Populism in Secular Times: Karl Jaspers on Difference, Identity and Philosophical Faith,” Yale Macmillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics & Society, Populism and Pluralism Conference, New Haven, CT, May 2018.
  • Presentation, “Between Immanence and Transcendence – Charles Taylor and Karl Jaspers on the Axial Age, Philosophical Faith, and the Aspiration to Fullness in Secular Times,” Western Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2018.
  • Workshop Coordinator, “European Identity – Religion and Secularism,” European Student Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 2016.
  • Presentation, “Im Freiheits-Gleichheits-Oxymoron – Motivation und das Streben nach Differenz” [“Within the Freedom-Equality-Oxymoron – Motivation and the Desire for Difference”], The Problem with the Problems, Interdisciplinary Workshop, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, October 2016.
  • Presentation, Roundtable Discussion, “The Challenge of the Other: European Identity and the Refugee Crisis,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016.
  • Presentation, “Karl Jaspers and the Judgment of Taste, the Sublime, and Aesthetic Truth,” Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, University College Dublin, Ireland, May 2016.
  • Presentation, “The Variety of Spiritual Experience – Meditations on Ludwig Wittgenstin, William James, and Albert Camus,” Invited Talk at Sunday Assembly Berlin, Germany, September 2015.
  • Presentation and Workshop Discussion, “Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethics as First Philosophy,” Transcendence and Political Philosophy Workshop, University College Dublin, Ireland, November 2013.
  • Presentation, “The Child as an Other and the Problem of Autonomy,” Psychology and the Other Annual Conference, Boston, MA, October 2013.
  • Presentation, “Situating the Other – the Ethical Turn Reconsidered,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2013.
  • Presentation, “Oslo Revisited – A Philosophical Critique of the Two-State Solution,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2010.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCES (for more information, see tab “teaching”)

Department of Political Science, Yale University
• “Legacies of Communism and Conflict in Europe” (TA to Andrea Aldrich), Fall 2018
• “The New Europe” (TA to David Cameron), Spring 2018
• “Introduction to International Law” (TA to Thania Sanchez), Fall 2015
• “The Moral Foundations of Politics” (TA to Ian Shapiro), Fall 2013

Spring Academy, Dialogperspektiven, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Foundation: “Theokratie – ein Gedankenexperiment” [Theocracy – a Thought Experiment], Gollwitz, Germany
• “Religion, Difference and Democracy: Pluralism in Times of Populism and Identity Politics” (graduate seminar), March 2018

Summer School, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Leysin, Switzerland
• “Google and the Shitting Duck – The History of Mechanization and Technology” (undergraduate seminar), August 2014

Department of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
• “The Political Theory of Obedience, Authority, and Violence – Case Studies from the Middle East” (undergraduate seminar), Summer 2011
• “Nationalism and State-Building in the Middle East” (undergraduate seminar), Winter 2010/2011
• “Culture & Psychology – Self, Identity and Values in Psychological Discourse” (undergraduate seminar), Summer 2007

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

 

LANGUAGES

German, English, French

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