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
Department 08 - Social Sciences 
Institute for European Studies
Universit?tsboulevard 13 
28359 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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