Jeanette Ehrmann is a guest professor in political theory at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
She received her PhD in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt. Her dissertation on the Haitian Revolution was awarded the Werner Pünder-Prize 2019 for outstanding research on the subject of "freedom and domination in past and present". The book, entitled "Tropes of Freedom. The Haitian Revolution and the Decolonization of the Political," will be published with Suhrkamp in 2024.
Previously, Jeanette was a visiting researcher at Northwestern University, the University of Oxford, the Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research, Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Université d’État d’Haїti.
With an emphasis on postcolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives, Jeanette’s scholarship explores political theories of migration and borders, democratic theory, diaspora theory and (counter-)archival and ethnographic methods as well as dramaturgical, topological and tropological analysis in political theory.
Her current work connects postcolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives in democratic theory grounded in migrant-situated knowledge and collective action with ethnographic methods to explore democratic practices and horizons beyond Western liberal democracy’s crisis.
