Sponsored Chairs
Prof. Dr. Christian Martin
Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University
Christian Martin is a professor of political science at the University of Kiel, Germany. He currently holds the Max Weber Chair in German and European Studies at New York University. Martin has studied political science at the University of Konstanz and holds a doctorate from there (2002). Martin was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz and at the Max-Planck-Institute in Jena (2003-2004). He was an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg (2004-2008) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University (2008-2011).
Martin’s research interests focus on the political conditions and consequences of globalization and regional integration. He has published on the effects of globalization for electoral participation and, most recently, on the incentive to adopt more proportional voting systems in a highly globalized environment. His current research project is on backlashes against globalization and EU integration.
Home University: Universität Kiel, Department of Political Science
Host University: New York University
Host Institute: Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
Contact: New York University
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
285 Mercer St., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
e-mail: christian.martinnyu.edu
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the University of Toronto (2025-26)
Thorsten Faas is the current holder of the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair and a visiting professor at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on electoral politics and campaign communications, particularly as they relate to young people and German elections. Faas is one of the principal investigators of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) and a member of the Planning Committee for Module 7 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). His academic articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, West European Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Public Policy, Electoral Studies, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and German Politics.
Faas’s main research interests include: electoral politics, campaign communications, particularly as these relate to young voters in the context of German elections.
Selected Publications:
Polarisierung trotz Stabilität: Wähler:innen in Deutschland und ihr Blick auf Demokratie, Medien, Themen und Parteien im Lichte der CNEP-Studien 2017,2021,2024, Berlin: FU Berlin, 2025.
With Sigrid Roßteutscher and Armin Schäfer: Jugend wählt: Perspektiven junger Menschen auf Wahlalter, politische Informationen und Parteien bei der Europawahl 2024, Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2024.
With Arndt Leininger: Mehr Wählen wagen? Ungleichheiten beim „Wählen ab 16“ und ihre Folgen, Frankfurt am Main: Otto-Brenner-Stiftung, 2023.
With Hannah Bucher, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Axel M. Burger, Harald Schoen, Marc Debus, Sigrid Roßteutscher (Eds.): Special Issue: The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021: A Pilot Project on the Applicability of Registered Reports in Quantitative Political Science, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Special Issue), 64, 2023, DOI: 10.1007/s11615-022-00436-0.
With Sigrid Roßteutscher (Eds.): Special Issue: Alive and Kicking: Electoral Reform in Germany, in: German Politics (Special Issue), 31, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2022.2127147.
Thorsten Faas, Arndt Leininger: Wählen mit 16? Ein empirischer Beitrag zur Debatte um die Absenkung des Wahlalters, Frankfurt am Main: Otto-Brenner-Stiftung, 2020.
Home University: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Host University: University of Toronto, Canada
Host Institute: Munk School of Global Affairs, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES)
Contact:
University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs,
Room 219N
1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 3K7
Canada
E-mail: thorsten.faasutoronto.ca
