About

Professor Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg where she is a member of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences as well as the Law Faculty. She is an elected By-Fellow of Hughes Hall University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Academia Europea. Her research and teaching centres on International Relations (IR) theory, especially norms research and contestation theory. And previously she held Chairs in International Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bath and taught at the Universities of Stanford, Carleton, Sussex and Hannover. Current research projects include ‘Contested Climate Justice in Sensitive Regions’ at the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change and Society (CLICCS) as well as ‘Doing Theory – From Where and What For? A Backpackers’ Guide to Knowledge Production’ at the Centre for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) among others. With James Tully, she is co-founding editor of Global Constitutionalism (CUP, since 2012 ). And she also edits the Norm Research in International Relations Series (Springer). She currently serves on several Committees of the Academy of Social Sciences and she has been re-appointed to the ESRC‘s Global Challenges Research Fund Peer Review College in 2019. In 2021, she concluded her second three-year term as elected member of the Executive Committee of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). Her most recent book ‘Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations’ (CUP 2018) was awarded the International Law Section’s Book Prize in 2020. ‘Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice’ co-edited with Phil Orchard was published in 2024. (CUP 2024).

• 2020 Elected to the Academia Europaea (link)
• 2020 Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Affairs, Cambridge University (link) & Wolfson College, Cambridge University (link)
• 2018 (1-3) Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University (link)
• 2017-2026 By-Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge (link)
• 2017 (3) Visiting Fellow, Munk School, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2016 (9-12) Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University
• 2016 (3-6) Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh
• 2015-17 Opus Magnum Fellowship, Volkswagen Foundation
• 2014-15 EURIAS Senior Fellowship, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar
• 2014 (2-3) Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), University of Victoria, Canada
• 2012 (9-10) Twinning Fellowship, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Studies (HWK), Delmenhorst, Germany
• 2011 (3-7) Fellowship, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Studies (HWK) Delmenhorst, Germany
• 2011-to date Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK
• 2004-09 Spring Lectures on International Relations Theories and International Law, 10 hs/year, MA/PhD Programme, University of Trento, Italy, Standing Guest Professorship, School of International Studies
• 2000-07 Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science, Institute of European Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast
• 2006 (5-6) Guest of the President Fellowship (Pres. Prof Jürgen Kocka), Centre for Social Sciences Berlin / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB) 
• 2003 Fellowship, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Studies (HWK) Delmenhorst, Germany
• 1998 Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK
• 1998 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship, Robert Schumann Centre, European University Institute, Florence
• 1996-97 German American Academic Council Postdoc Fellowship: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) & German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), New School of Social Research, New York & Humboldt University Berlin
• 1995-97 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sussex European Institute, Sussex University, Human Capital & Mobility Programme of the EU
• 1996 (2/6) Visiting Professorship European University Institute, Florence, Forum on Citizenship
• 1990-91 Exchange Fellowship, Stanford University, CA, Stanford Graduate Division

Editorships

Directorships

• Executive Committee Member of the German Political Science Association (GPSA) (2018-2021)
• Member of the Exceutive Committee, Section "International Organisation", International Studies Association (ISA): Chair of the Chadwick Alger Prize Jury (2016-18)
• Board Member, Standing Group of International Relations der ECPR (2001-11)
• Board Member, International Studies Association (ISA) (2007-09)
• Executive Director, Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) University of Hamburg (2009-10 & 2011-12)
• Board of Directors, Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG) University of Hamburg (2009-12)
• Director of Research Area 4: Global Governance, Constitutionalism and World Society, Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG), University of Hamburg (since 2009)

Boards

• Member of the Academic Advisory Borad of EU Cyber Direct, Brussels (since 2018)
• Member of International Scientific Committee, Politique et Sociétés (since 2017)
• Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Peer Review Group Member, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom (since 2017)
• Member of the Lionel Gelber Price Jury, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and Foreign Policy magazine (2017)
• Advisory Board Member, German Political Science Association (GPSA) (2013-15)
• Advisory Board Member, German Institute for Global Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 2009-17)
• Advisory Board Member, Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Research Network, York University, Toronto (2005-14)
• Member of the Steering Group International Relations, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (2001-11)