CV

Academic employment:

2022-26        Carlsberg postdoctoral fellow and lecturer. Politics of the Exception: Towards a Political Theory of the State(s) of Exception at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Co-funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the department. 

2020-22        Postdoctoral researcher. Reconceptualizing Populism: Towards a Genealogy of the Concept(s) of the People at Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

2019-20        Postdoctoral researcher. In the Name of the People – Populism and the Popular: Threats or Promises to Democracy? at the Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark. 

2015-16        Visiting researcher. Department of History, University of California Berkeley. Sponsor: Professor Martin Jay.

2012-14        Journalist, Modkraft/Monsun. Main areas of coverage: social movements, international relations, and political economy.

2010-11        Member of the board of experts, CEREPO – Center for Rets- og Politi-forskning [Centre for Legal and Police Research]. 

Education:

2015-19        Ph.D. Social Science. From the Critique of Heaven to the Critique of Earth: Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Theology at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Awarded 7. October 2019.

2011-12        MA Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. 

2008-9          MSc Political Sociology, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

2005-8          BA Combined Honours: Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster.

Research interests: social and political theory, history of ideas, historical and political sociology, political theology, sovereignty, crisis governance, securitization, state theory, democratic theory, populism, sociology of religion, Marx and Marxisms, critical theory, governmentality, political economy.

Methodological training and experience: archival research, text and document analysis (various forms of discourse analysis, intellectual history, conceptual history etc.), interviews (semi-structured, expert, and focus groups), participant observation, computational text analysis, qualitative data analysis, descriptive statistics, basic knowledge of Nvivo, Excel, and SPSS.

Languages: Danish and English (native proficiency), Scandinavian languages and German (proficient), Turkish and Serbo-Croatian (basic/learner).

Academic and organizational service:

2026              Editor of special (double) issue on “Marx and Revolution,”Political Theology (forthcoming/2025).

2026              Editor of special issue on “Populism and Constitutionalism: Historical Perspectives,” Law, Culture & the Humanities (forthcoming/2026).

2025-              Deputy research group leader “Transformation of Political Institutions”-research group at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University.

2025              Editor of Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Copenhagen: Problema, 2025).

2016-            Co-founder and board member of Selskab for Marxistiske Studier [Danish Society for Marxist Studies] and organizer of more than ten annual international conferences (including fundraising) with 150+ participants on average and prominent international keynotes. For an overview see http://marxistiskestudier.com.

2016-            Peer-reviewer for journals including Perspectives on Politics, Theory, Culture & Society, Constellations, European Journal of Political Theory, Theoria, Distinktion, Historical Materialism, Palgrave, Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, and more.

2016-            Contributed to reworking course descriptions, reading lists, and assessment criteria for various BA and MA courses. 

2015-            Editor of book-series Slagmarks Revolutionsserie [The Revolution-series] at Forlaget Slagmark.

2015-            Member of various relevant professional associations and networks including Danish Political Science Association (DAPSA), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Association of Political Theory (APT), Political Theology Network (PTN), International Society of Intellectual History (ISIH), etc.

2024              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Class and its Dis/Contents” w. keynotes Charmaine Chua and Patrick Eiden-Offe at Copenhagen University, October 4-5, 2024.

2024              Editor of Michel Foucault om teori og metode [Michel Foucault on Theory and Method] (København: DJØF forlag, 2024).

2023              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “The National and the International” w. keynotes Carolina Alves and Benno Teschke at University of Southern Denmark, October 6-7, 2023.

2022              Editor of special issue on “Folk, folkestyre og populisme” [The People, Democracy and Populism], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 85 (2022). 

2022-              Member of “Transformation and Ordering of Political Institutions”-research group at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University.

2022              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Time and History in the Age of Capital” w. keynotes Heide Gerstenberger and Peter Osborne at Aarhus University, October 7-8, 2022.

2021              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Capital, Climate, Crisis” w. keynote: Andreas Malm at Aalborg University, October 1-2, 2021.

2021              Organizer of international research seminar: “The People, Democracy and Populism” at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, March 26, April 9, and April 16, 2021.

2020-22        “Centre for the Study of Democracy,” School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster.

2020              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Borders and Boundaries” w. keynotes Maïa Pal and Brenna Bhandar at Copenhagen Business School, October 9-10, 2020.

2020              Organizer of panel debate: “Diskussion om populisme” [Debating populism] w. Rune Lykkeberg, Mogens Herman Hansen, Ditte Marie Brasso and Allan Dreyer Hansen at Roskilde University, January 30, 2020.

2019-20        Organizer of reading group: Politics of the Popular: The People, Democracy and Populism at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University, November 2019-May 2020.

2015-20        Member of “Power, Identity and Critique”-research group at Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University.

2019              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Conflicts and Contradictions” w. keynotes Sara R. Farris and Marius Ostrowski at Danish School of Education (DPU), October 4-5, 2019. 

2019              Organizer of conference “The Rule of All: Democracy and Democratising Movements in Contemporary Global Society” w. keynotes Peter Hallward and Dilar Dirik at The Danish Institute in Athens: March 4-6, 2019.

2018              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference: “Arenas of Struggle” w. keynote Tithi Bhattacharya at University of Southern Denmark, September 7-8, 2018. 

2017              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference “Marx Now” w. keynote: Nina Power at Roskilde University, September 1-2, 2017. 

2017              Editor of symposium: “Post-kapitalisme” [Post-capitalism], Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie: 75 (2017): 137-174.

2017              Editor of Den Russiske Revolution [The Russian Revolution] (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2017).

2016              Organizer of Danish Society of Marxist Studies’ Annual Conference “Marx Now” at Århus University, September 9-10, 2016. 

2016              Editor of Hannah Arendt, Vi flygtninge [We Refugees] (Denmark: Forlaget Slagmark, 2016/2017/2019/2024).