Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer

2013

Elected President of Erfurt University (declined)

2010

Guest professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and at the Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City

2007                

Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and Democracy

2006     

Chair of Political Science at the University of Luzern, Switzerland (declined)

2001, 2006

Guest professor and Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris

04/1993

Called to accept the Chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought at TU Dresden; accepted 09/1993

1991

Habilitation, University of Essen
(“Hegemony of Liberalism. Political Thought and Political Culture in the USA 1776 - 1920”); Received venia legendi for teaching political science

1990 - 1993

Deputy chair at the University of Essen (C3: Internal Relations and C4: Political Science)

1986 - 1987

Research Associate (DFG research grant) at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

1984, 1985 - 1986

Researcherat the University of Essen

1981 - 1984

Seminar Director and Lecturer at the Theodor Heuss Academy, Gummersbach

1980

Awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Political Science (“Constitution and Consensus”) by the University of Bonn – Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karl Dietrich Bracher

1975 - 1980

Studies in Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology (joint degree), University of Bonn and University of Geneva

Since 2019

Since 2018

Member if the Expert Commission for Integration of the German Federal Government

Member of the Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration

Founder and spokesperson for the collaborative research centre 804 “Transcendence and Common Sense”, leader of the subproject “Democratic Order between Transcendence and Common Sense”

Leading spokesperson for the SFB initiative “Transcendence and Common Sense”, TU Dresden

Spokesperson and coordinator the excellence initiative “Dresden International Graduate School of Culture, History, and Society”

Spokesperson and coordinator for the excellence initiative “Social Change and Institutional Order” (Graduate School) at TU Dresden

Deputy spokesperson for collaborative research centre 537 “Institutionality and Historicity” at Technische Universität Dresden

Founding member and project lead for collaborative research centre 537 “Institutionality and Historicity” at TU Dresden

Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at Technische Universität Dresden

Programme officer at TU Dresden for the collaboration: with the New School University (previously: New School for Social Research), New York – annual fund raising from ISAP funds at the DAAD as well as with the University of Zagreb (Croatia) and the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik (Croatia); Erasmus officer for the exchange programmes with Lyon (France), Turin (Italy), Bologna (Italy) and Wroclaw (Poland)

Member of the TU Dresden Council

Member of the research association “La démocratie face aux enjeux environnementaux”, Paris (Financed by: ANR)

Project lead on “Constitutionalisation of transnational spaces: Emergent constitutional processes and semantics in political science analysis” (Financed by: DFG)

Project lead on subproject H “Democratic Order between Transcendence and Common Sense” in collaborative research centre 804 (Financed by: DFG)

Project lead (in collaboration with Gary Schaal and Claudia Ritzi, Hamburg) for “60 Years of the Basic Law. German Identity in context of Europeanisation and regionalisation” (Financed by: Thyssen Foundation)

Member of the research association “Territoires, populations et citoyenneté en Europe”, Paris (Financed by: CNRS)

Member of the research association “Concurrences de légitimité, types de contestation et transformations du statut de l’Etat dans les sociétés européennes”, Paris (Financed by: ANR)

Project lead (together with J.-P. Machelon, F. Monnier and W. J. Patzelt) for "Die Entwicklung politischer Institutionen und die Vielfalt der Verfassungskulturen in Europa/ L' évolution des institutions publiques et la diversité des cultures constitutionnelles en Europe" at European Graduate College 625 "Institutionelle Ordnungen, Schrift und Symbole/ Ordres institutionnels, écrit et symboles", Technische Universität Dresden and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (Financed by: DFG and French Ministry of Research)

Project lead on project I “Constitution as Institutional Order in Politics” in collaborative research centre 537, Technische Universität Dresden (Financed by: DFG)

Head of research project “Political thought and political culture in the USA” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Financed by: State of Hessen)

Head of research project “The American ideology: An exploration of the American liberal tradition”, Harvard University, USA (Financed by: DFG)

1984-1985

Research project “A comparison of the constitutional order of the USA” (Financed by: Harvard University; DAAD)