Chercheurs associés

Boris Vormann

Adresse courriel

 b.vormann@berlin.bard.edu

Langues parlées et écrites 

anglais, français, allemand

Spécialités

Politique comparée, relations internationales, politiques de l’Amérique du Nord (USA, Canada, Québec)

Intérêts de recherche 

L’état-nation, l’urbanisation et la mondialisation

Affiliations professionnelles 

  • Depuis 09/2017 : Associate Professor of Politics Head of Politics Section Bard College Berlin.
  • Depuis 10/2011 :  Associate Researcher Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Études Québécoises et Canadiennes Université du Québec à Montréal.
  • 10/2015-08/2017 : Visiting Professor Dept. of Political Science John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
  • 01/2017-05/2017 : Lecturer NYU Berlin New York University.
  • 03/2016 : Visiting Professor Max Planck Sciences Po Center Sciences Po, Paris.
  • 07/2015-03/2016 : Associate Scholar Mahindra Humanities Center Harvard University.
  • 09/2015-10/2015 : Fulbright Fellow Center for Place, Culture and Politics CUNY Graduate Center.

 Formation académique 

  • 04/2013-09/2015 : Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Dept. of Political Science, Graduate School of North American Studies John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
  • 10/2014-09/2015 : Group Leader NYLON Berlin, Einstein Group Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
  • 03/2014-04/2014 :  Visiting Researcher Institute for Public Knowledge New York University
  • 10/2009-03/2013 : Ph.D. en sciences politiques (summa cum laude) Graduate School of North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin.
  • 09/2011-05/2012 : Visiting doctoral candidate in Political Science and Sociology New York University.
  • 10/2004-09/2009 : M.A. in Cultural Studies, Literature, Linguistics (American/French and Romance Studies) Technische Universität.
  • 09/2007-05/2008 : Visiting Fulbright student in International Relations and Diplomacy Seton Hall University.

Enseignement 

  • 2018 : Spring: “Comparative Public Policy.” Political Science, Bard College Berlin.
  • 2018 : Spring: “Globalization and International Relations.” Political Science, Bard College Berlin.
  • 2017 : Fall: “Statecraft in the New Global Order.” Political Science, Bard College Berlin.
  • 2017 : Fall: “Origins of Political Economy.” Political Science, Bard College Berlin.
  • 2017 : Bachelor Course: “Introduction to Political Theory.” Political Science, New York University, NYU Berlin.
  • 2017 : PhD course: “Theories and Methods in Political and Social Science Research.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2017 : Master Course: “Democracy and the State.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2017 : Master Course: “The Roots of Liberalism and its Critique.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2017 : Master Course: “Research Colloquium.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2017 : Bachelor Course: “Western Political Theory.” John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016-2017  : Master Course: “The Comparative Politics of Inequality.” Political Science/Sociology. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016-2017 : Master Course: “Logistics and Urbanization,” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016-2017 : Master Course: “Research in Political Science.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016-2017 : Bachelor Course: “Economic Restructuring, Regionalization and Federalism.” Political Science/Economics. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016 : Master Course: “Globalization and the State.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2016 : Master Course: “Planetary Urbanization.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2016 : Master Course: “Research Colloquium.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2016 : Bachelor Course: “The Entrepreneurial State.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2016 : Bachelor Course: “Urban Theory.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Institute/Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2015-2016 : Master Course: “Theories of the American State.” Political Science/Sociology. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2015-2016 : Master Course: “Nations and Nationalism in North America.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität
  • 2015-2016 : Bachelor Course: “American Exceptionalism.” Political Science / Sociology. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2015-2016      Bachelor Course: “Global Cities in the United States.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2015 : Master Course: “Liberal Nationalism and American Empire.” Political Science. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr-Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2013-2015 : Coordinator, doctoral and postdoctoral level: “Interdisciplinary Forum.” Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität.
  • 2014 : Summer School: “Linking Urbanization and Globalization.” Political Science. Global Politics Summer School Jordan “Migration & Urbanization in a Globalized World.” Freie Universität/DAAD.
  • 2013/14 : Master Course: “Critical Social Theory.” Political Science/Sociology. John-F.-Kennedy Inst./Otto-Suhr Institute, Freie Universität.
  • 2013 : Master Course: “Nation, State, and Market. Legitimacy and the Formation of Public Goods in Comparative Perspective.” Pol. Science. JFKI/OSI; FU Berlin.
  • Module Supervisor, Master Online Course: “Changing Patterns of Governance: Mega Cities.” Political Science. Center for Global Politics, Freie Universität
  • 2012/13 : Master Course: “Sites, Technologies, and Politics of Neoliberalization Processes.” Political Science. JFKI/OSI; FU Berlin.
  • 2010/11  : Bachelor Course: “Political and Economic Inequalities in the Unites States since the 1980s.” [Co-taught] Political Science/Economics. JFKI/OSI; FU Berlin.

Bourses et distinctions 

  • 2018 : Funding Support, BCB Colloquium
  • 2016 : Support for ERC application, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2016 : Atlantische Akademie conference support
  • 2016 : DFG Exzellenzmittel, GSNAS
  • 2016 : DGfA conference support
  • 2015-2016 : Fulbright American Studies Award
  • 2015-2016 : Global Humanities Fellowship for Harvard, Dahlem Humanities Center
  • 2015 : Einstein Circle ‘Large-Scale Organization’, NYLON Research Group
  • 2015 : Research Alumni Program for Brown Univ., Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013-2015 : Postdoctoral Scholarship, GSNAS
  • 2014 : Stiftung Luftbrückendank, conference support
  • 2014 : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), conference support
  • 2014 : German Association for American Studies (DGFA), conference support
  • 2013 : Salzburg Global Seminar Scholarship Award
  • 2013 : Transitional Grant, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013 : Research Grant, Université du Québec à Montréal
  • 2012-2013 : Follow-up Fellowship, Graduate School of North American Studies
  • 2009-2013 : Doctoral Scholarship, DFG
  • 2011-2012 : Dissertation Research Fellowship, New York University
  • 2010 : Clinton Institute for American Studies Summer School, University College Dublin, GSNAS Participant
  • 2009 : International Futures, Delegate for the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2009 : Lohrmann Medal for best degree at the Department of Cultural Studies, Literature, and Linguistics (Technische Universität Dresden)
  • 2007-2008 : Fulbright Scholarship (Fulbright Commission)

Publications pertinentes  

Ouvrages

  • Vormann, Boris and Christian Lammert (eds.). 2019. Contours of the Illiberal State:Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy. Campus/The University of Chicago Press [in preparation].
  • –––, Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert (eds.). 2019. Handbuch Politik USA. Vollständig überarbeitete Neuauflage. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. [“Handbook of US Politics and Policy. Fully revised 2ndedition”; under contract].
  • –––, and Christian Lammert. 2017. Die Krise der Demokratie und wie wir sie überwinden. Aufbau Verlag: Berlin.
  • –––, Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert (eds.). 2016. Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden. [“Handbook of US Politics and Policy”]
  • –––. 2015. Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks.Routledge: London and New York.
  • –––. 2012. Zwischen Alter und Neuer Welt. Nationenbildung im transatlantischen Raum. Synchron Publishers: Heidelberg. [Engl.: “Between the Old and the New World. Nation-building in Transatlantic Space.”].
  • –––, Kolboom, Ingo and Alain-G. Gagnon (eds.). 2011. Québec. Staat und Gesellschaft. Synchron Publishers: Heidelberg. [“Québec. State and Society”].
  • Chapitres et articles (peer-reviewed*)
  • Vormann, Boris. 2018. “The Heavenly Chorus Sings with a Strong Upper-class Accent: Geld und Lobbyismus in der US Politik.” In Patrick Horst, Frank Decker and Philipp Adorf (eds.). Die USA – eine scheiternde Demokratie?Frankfurt/New York: Campus. [in print]
  • –––. 2018. “City Limits: Sustainable Urban Governance in Planetary Infrastructural Regimes.” In: Helmut Aust and Anél Du Plessis (eds.). The Globalization of Urban Governance. New York: Routledge. [in print]
  • –––. 2018. “Das Ende der Geographie? Globalisierung und staatliche Infrastrukturregime.” In: Helmut Aust and Hans Christian Röhl (eds.). Globalisierungsprozesse und das Recht der kommunalen Selbstverwaltung. [in print]
  • –––, and Ingo Kolboom. 2018. “Frankophonie: Kulturelle Makro-Region und Global Player.” In: Oberreuter, Heinrich (ed.)Staatslexikon. 8. Auflage. Görres-Gesellschaft, 827-830.
  • –––. 2018. “Am Ende des Dritten Weges: Abkehr vom Liberalismus?” In: Oswald, Michael und Winand Gellner (eds.). Die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika. Die Wahl Donald Trumps und die Folgen für Politik und Gesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer, 223-236.
  • –––, and Patrick DeDauw. 2018. “Off Shore: The Sustainable City and its Logistical Costs.” In: Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier (eds.). Maritime Mobilities. Routledge: New York, 75-90.
  • –––. 2018. “Greater than the Sum of its Parts. The Unrealized Potentials of Interdisciplinary Area Studies.” In: Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre (eds.). Projecting American Studies. Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Universitätsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg, 183-196.
  • –––, and Christian Lammert 2017. “Region Nordamerika.” In Simon Koschut (ed.). Regionen und Regionalismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 113-126.
  • –––, and Christian Lammert. 2016. “Gesellschaft in der Krise? Neue Ungleichheiten in den USA.” In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 601-616. [“A Society in Crisis? New Inequalities in the United States”]
  • –––, and Christian Lammert. 2016. “Kommunalpolitik in den USA.” In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 225-240. [“Local Government in the United States”]
  • –––. 2016. “Beneath and Beyond the Sustainable City.” In: Gersdorf, Catrin and Juliane Braun (eds.) America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Universitätsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg, 221-242.
  • –––. 2016. “Stadt- und Regionalpolitik in den USA: Globale Ströme und lokale Verankerung.” In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 403-420. [“Urban and Regional Politics in the United States”]
  • –––, Lammert, Christian and Markus Siewert. 2016. “Fremde Vertraute: Die Politik der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika.” In: Vormann, Boris; Lammert, Christian; Siewert, Markus (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Springer VS: Wiesbaden, 1-12. [“Intimate Strangers: Politics in the United States of America”]
  • –––. 2015. “Urban Diversity: Disentangling the Cultural and the Economic Case.” New Diversities17 (2): 119-129.*
  • –––, and Christian Lammert. 2015. “Has Quebecois Separatism Run its Course? New Chances for Cooperative Arrangements in Canada.” Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien35: 45-62.*
  • –––. 2015. “Infrastructures of the Global: Adding a Third Dimension to Urban Sustainability Discourses” European Journal of American Studies10 (3): 2-11.*
  • –––. 2015. “Toward an Infrastructural Critique of Urban Change. Obsolescence and Changing Perceptions of New York City’s Waterfront.” CITY19 (2-3): 332-340.*
  • –––. 2014. “Das Spiel mit dem Feuer. Von Staaten, Märkten und dem Siegeszug der Austerität.” In: Blyth, Mark: Wie Europa sich kaputtspart. Die gescheiterte Idee der Austeritätspolitik. Dietz: Bonn, 9-15. [“Of States, Markets, and the Rise of Austerity”]
  • –––, and Christian Lammert. 2014. “A Paradoxical Relationship? Regionalization and Canadian National Identity.” American Review of Canadian Studies44 (4): 385-399.*
  • –––. 2014. “Diversität und Föderalismus im frühen 21. Jahrhundert. Eine deutsche Perspektive.” In: Gagnon, Alain-G.: Das Zeitalter der Ungewissheiten. Essays über Föderalismus und nationale Diversität. Nomos: Baden-Baden, 9-23. [“Diversity and Federalism in the early 21st Century. A German Perspective”]
  • –––. 2014. “Who Needs American Studies? Globalization, Nationalism, and the Future of Area Studies.” American Studies/Amerikastudien59 (3): 387-406.*
  • –––, and Gina Caison. 2014. “The Logics and Logistics of Urban Progress. Contradictions and Conceptual Challenges of the Global North-South-Divide.” The Global South8 (2): 65-83.*
  • –––. 2014. “Infrastrukturen der globalen Stadt. Widersprüche des urbanen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurses am Beispiel Vancouvers.”Zeitschrift für Kanadastudien34: 62-86. [Infrastructures of the Global City. Contradictions of Urban Sustainability Discourses in the Case of Vancouver”]*
  • –––, and Sonja Schillings. 2013. “The Vanishing Poor. Frontier Narratives in US Gentrification and Security Debates.” UCLA Critical Urban Planning20: 145-165.*
  • ––– and Julia Püschel. 2012. “Grey Zones of the Market – Public Services, Education Policies, and Neoliberal Reform in the United Kingdom.” In: Lall, Marie (ed.): Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric. How New Labour Challenged Social Justice and Democracy. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, 15-40.
  • ––– and Ingo Kolboom. 2011. “Québec – Ein Land zwischen nationaler Selbstbehauptung und Globalisierung. Einleitung zur deutschen Ausgabe.” In: Vormann, Boris; Kolboom, Ingo; Gagnon, Alain-G. (eds.). Québec. Staat und Gesellschaft. Synchron: Heidelberg. [“Québec – A Country between National Affirmation and Globalization”]
  • –––. 2011. “Visibilizing Risk. Risk Perception and Maritime Infrastructure in the ‘War on Terror’.” In: Fluck, Winfried; Motyl, Katharina; Pease, Donald; Raetzsch, Christoph (ed.): States of Emergcy – States of Crisis.Gunter Narr Verlag: Tübingen, 317-335.

Traductions

  • Blyth, Mark. 2014. Wie Europa sich kaputt spart. Die gescheiterte Idee der Austeritätspolitik. Dietz Verlag: Bonn. [Original title: “Austerity. The History of a Dangerous Idea,” Oxford University Press]
  • Gagnon, Alain-G. 2014. Das Zeitalter der Ungewissheiten. Essays über Föderalismus und nationale Diversität. Nomos: Baden-Baden. [“National Minorities in an Age of Uncertainty,” Toronto University Press]
  • Gagnon, Alain-G.; Kolboom, Ingo and Boris Vormann (Hrsg.). 2011. Québec. Staat und Gesellschaft. Synchron: Heidelberg. [“Quebec. State and Society,” Broadview Press]