Dr. Jakob Wiedekind

Since July 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the Leibniz University Hannover

September - October 2021

Visiting Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

October 2017 - June 2023

Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the Leibniz University Hannover; Title of Dissertation: "The Assertive Presidency – Understanding Preemptive Executive Pressure on Legislative Outcomes in American Foreign Policy" (mark: unanimous summa cum laude)

August-September 2019

Research Stay in the U.S. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the American University in Washington D.C.

September - October 2018

Research Stay in the U.S. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

February 2016 - June 2017

Research assistant in the international research project "Militarization 2.0. Militarization's social media footprint through a gendered lens"

October 2015 - September 2017

M.A. in Political Science with a major in International Relations and Qualitative Methods

October 2015 - June 2017

Student assistant for the chair of international relations at the Institut of Political Science at the Leibniz University Hannover

October 2012 - September 2015

B.A. in Political Science with a major in International Relations and Political Systems

• GAES travel grant (APSA annual meeting 2023)
• APSA travel grant (Presidents and Executive Politics Section) for the Annual Meeting 2023, Los Angeles
• Research Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (GAE S): Sep.-Oct. 2021: UNC at Chapel Hill
• Research Stay Grant by the Graduate Academy of the Leibniz University: Sep.-Oct. 2019: UNC at Chapel Hill (North Carolina; USA); American University in Washington D.C., Emory College in Atlanta und Vanderbilt University in Nashville
• Research Stay Grant by the PROMOS Program as part of the DAAD: Aug.-Sep. 2018: UNC at Chapel Hill (North Carolina; USA). 
• Student Grant by the state of Lower Saxony: Winter Term 2015/16

• Voting member of the appointment committee for the professorship "Quantitative methods in political science" for the Institute of Political Science of the Leibniz Universität Hannover

• SN Social Sciences

• Member of the Board for the Institute of Political Science
• Member of the examination board for the interdisciplinary bachelor and the MA Degree in Teaching
• Deputy BAföG Officer (Financial Support for Students)
• Web-Administrator for the Institute of Political Science
• Management of the political science colloquium 
• Member of the KFIBS as well as author in the research team "USA/Transatlantic Relations/NATO"
• Member of the German Association for American Studies
• Member of the American Political Science Association
• Member of the German Political Science Association (GPSA)