About
Short bio
Maren Hofius is currently a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Global Governance at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her PhD in 2015. In 2020-2021 she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Hofius is a leading specialist in practice-theoretical research on regional and global governance. Focusing on diplomacy and foreign and security policy more broadly, she is widely known for research on international communities of practice, boundary work and the importance of ethics in diplomacy. In her most recent work, she has focused on new approaches to informal governance and regime interactions as well as the politics of knowledge production in the context of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Hofius has published in leading global governance and diplomacy journals including Global Constitutionalism, Global Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, Review of International Studies and The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. Her monograph “European Union Communities of Practice: Diplomacy and Boundary Work in Ukraine” provides a practice-based analysis of European Union diplomacy and community-building in Kyiv, Ukraine (Routledge, 2023). In 2017, she was awarded the British International Studies Association prize for ‘Best Article in Review of International Studies’.
Hofius has extensive management experience, including through organizing international conferences on Germany’s Zeitenwende in its foreign and security policy as well as leading a network on feminist foreign policy. Together with Elke Schwarz, Hofius has been the editor of the Springer Book Series “Frontiers in International Relations” since 2020.
Research Interests
- International Political Sociology
- Constructivist norms research
- International Practice Theory
- Critical Border Studies
- Interpretive Methodology and Narratology
- Empirical focus on EU foreign and security policy, EU diplomacy
Career
- 1/4/2020-31/3/2021: Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
- 10.2015: Lecturer and researcher (PostDoc), Chair of Political Science and Global Governance
- 07.-08.2015: "Constitutionalism Unbound" Project
- 04.2009-03.2015: Lecturer and researcher (doctoral candidate),Chair of Political Science and Global Governance
- 2009/2010/2011: RECON Project
Academic Qualifications
- 9.2015: DPhil in Political Science (summa cum laude)
- 5.2009: Master of Arts in "Contemporary European Studies"
University of Bath (United Kingdom) and Humboldt-University Berlin - 06.2007: Bachelor of Arts in "European Studies"
Universiteit Maastricht (Netherlands)