Dr. Julia Simon
Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact
E-mail: jusimon@uni-bremen.de Phone.: +49 (0)421 / 218 67423 Office: GW2, room: B 2.210 | Address University of Bremen |
Academic Employment
| October 2023 - | University of Bremen Institute of European Studies |
| October 2024- March 2025 | Freie Universit?t Berlin Professor (pro tempore) on leave from University of Bremen John F. Kennedy Institute |
| April 2023- September 2023 | Leibniz University Hannover Professor (pro tempore) on leave from Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg Institute of Political Science |
| 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 |
Publications
Race, Traditionen des konservativen Anti-Intellektualismus und autokratische Projekte: Eine Historisierung der Bildungspolitik unter Trump. In: Leviathan 2025, 53(4): pp. 433-461. DOI: 10.5771/0340-0425-2025-4-377
Rule of law backsliding across regime types: a comparative analysis of the role of party cohesion in shaping backsliding dynamics | Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 2025(19), pp. 313–338. DOI: 10.1007/s12286-025-00645-y, with Marko Kukek and Matthew Stenberg
An Analytics of Far-Right Populist Contestation and the Case of 'Awakened Mothers' in US Public Education and Beyond. In: Global Society 2025, 40(1): pp. 1-25, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2025.2468946
The Populist Far Right and Europe’s Young Voters: Comparing the TikTok Campaigns of Fidesz and the Rassemblement National in the 2024 European Parliamentary Elections. In: Kaeding, M., Müller, M., Hoppe, A. (eds.): The 2024 European Parliament Elections. The Future of Europe. Cham: Springer, pp. 367-380, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89455-8_27, with Robert Csehi
Polarization. In: Nai, Alessandro, Max Gr?mping, and Dominique Wirz (eds.): Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025, pp. 199-203, DOI: 10.4337/9781035301447.vol3.00052, with Jakob Wiedekind
‘After Neoliberalism’ and on the ‘Dark Side’? Governmentality and Counter-Conduct in Times of Growing Autocratisation. In: Global Society, 2024, 39(1): pp. 1–15, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2024.2401552
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): pp. 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): pp. 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, 45(2): pp. 711-727, 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 N?tzold (eds.): The Southern Mediterranean. Challenges to the European Foreign and Security Policy, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2015, pp. 15-44, ISBN-10: 3848716097.
Der Arabische Frühling. Eine Analyse der Determinanten europ?ischer 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 Europ?ischen 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 Ans?tze für die Nachbarregionen. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 79-120, with Annette Jünemann.
Global Society: Authoritarian Governmentality and Counter-Conduct from the Local to the Global, 39:1, 2025.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift: Democracy and the (R)Evolution of the Right in the United States and Beyond, 65:2, 2024, with Jared Sonnicksen.
Teaching
Democratic Backsliding in Europa [undergraduate seminar]
The European Far Right Today: National politics, transnational coordination, global contexts [graduate seminar]
Politische Partizipation im Rahmen der Europ?ischen Union [undergraduate seminar]
The European Populist Far Right: National Contexts and Transnational Networks and Diffusion [undergraduate seminar]
Polarization: A Multifaceted Phenomenon in the European Union [graduate seminar]
Democratic Backsliding in the Context of the European Union [undergraduate seminar]
John-F.-Kennedy-Institut der Freie Universit?t Berlin:
Roots, Sites, and Drivers of Far-Right Contestation of Liberal Democracy in the US [graduate seminar]
Polarization: A multifaceted phenomenon in the European Union [graduate seminar]
Democratic Backsliding and Illiberalisms in the European Union [undergraduate seminar]
(Right-Wing) Populism in Europe [undergraduate seminar]
Politische Partizipation im Rahmen der Europ?ischen Union [undergraduate seminar]
Office Hours
Office hours are by appointment to accommodate varying student schedules and circumstances. Please email to arrange a time.


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