KRISTINA LEPOLD Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Philosophy Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany lepold@em.uni-frankfurt.de +49 (0)69 798-32784 (On research leave in the winter term 2018/19) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Critical Theory (esp. Frankfurt School), Social Philosophy, Social Theory AREAS OF COMPETENCE Critical Theory of Race, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Philosophy, Social Ontology EDUCATION Ph.D. in Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2017 Thesis Title: Ambivalent Recognition: Immanent Critique and the Challenge of Ideological Relations of Recognition Examiners: Axel Honneth, Martin Saar, Christoph Menke M.Sc. in Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010 B.A. in Political Science, University of Mannheim, 2009 Visiting Student (Erasmus Programme) at Sciences Po Paris, 2008 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor of Philosophy ( Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, postdoctoral) Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 10/2017-present Assistant Professor of Philosophy ( Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, postdoctoral) Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin 03/2017-10/2017 Research Associate ( Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, predoctoral) Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 04/2016-02/2017 01/2015-09/2015 Research Associate ( Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, predoctoral) Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin 10/2015-03/2016 VISITING POSITIONS Visiting Scholar Department of Philosophy, Harvard University 09/2018-02/2019 1
Visiting Scholar Department of Philosophy, Columbia University 09/2013-12/2013 SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS (selection) Postdoctoral Scholarship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 09/2018-02/2019 Ph.D. Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) 08/2011-07/2014 Student Scholarship by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) 01/2007-09/2010 PUBLICATIONS Books: In Preparation, Ambivalent Recognition (to appear in the book series of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research with Campus in the autumn of 2019). Edited Volumes: In Preparation, Ambivalences of Recognition: Reformulations of a Paradigm in Social and Political Thought (with Heikki Ikäheimo/Titus Stahl, under contract with Columbia University Press). Special Issues: In preparation, Critical Theory of Race (with Marina Martinez Mateo), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. 2014, Anerkennung und Unterwerfung [Recognition and Subjection] (with Titus Stahl), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62(2). Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and Book Chapters: In preparation, How Should We Understand the Ambivalence of Recognition? Revisiting the Link between Recognition and Subjection in the Works of Althusser and Butler (to appear in the edited volume Ambivalences of Recognition) Forthcoming, Recognition and Power in Honneth s Theory of Recognition, Critical Horizons. Forthcoming 2018, An Ideology Critique of Recognition: Judith Butler in the Context of the Contemporary Debate on Recognition, Constellations 25(3). Non-Peer Reviewed Research Articles and Book Chapters: 2017, Axel Honneths Neubegründung der kritischen Gesellschaftstheorie: Die kritische Theorie der Anerkennung [Axel Honneth s Renewal of Critical Theory: The Critical Theory of Recognition], in Philip Hogh/Sven Ellmers (eds.), Warum Kritik? Begründungsformen kritischer Theorie (Weilerswist: Velbrück), 281-300. 2014, Die Bedingungen der Anerkennung: Zum Zusammenhang von Macht, Anerkennung und Unterwerfung im Anschluss an Foucault [The Terms of Recognition: On the Relationship between Power, Recognition, and Subjection following Foucault], in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 62(2), 297-317. 2
Handbook Entries Submitted, Subjekt/Identität [Subject/Identity], in Robin Celikates/Rahel Jaeggi/Martin Saar (eds.), Handbuch Kritische Theorie (Stuttgart: Metzler). 2018, Recognition and Feminist Thought (with Christine Bratu), in Ludwig Siep/Heikki Ikäheimo/Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung (Wiesbaden: VS Springer). 2014, Strukturfunktionalismus: Talcott Parsons [Structural functionalism: Talcott Parsons] (with Axel Honneth), in Jörn Lamla/Henning Laux/David Strecker/Hartmut Rosa (eds.), Handbuch der Soziologie (Konstanz: UVK), 149-161. Book Reviews and Other Publications: 2017, Vom richtigen Leben im falschen. Erik Olin Wright weist Wege aus dem Kapitalismus [The Right Life in the Wrong One, Review of Erik Olin Wright s Envisioning Real Utopias], Soziopolis. 2015, Interview: Sich der Realität widersetzen. Kristina Lepold im Gespräch mit Sally Haslanger [Interview: Resisting Reality. Kristina Lepold in Conversation with Sally Haslanger] (with Sally Haslanger), Westend. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 12(2), 159-170. 2013, Rezension von Sally Haslanger, Resisting Reality [Review of Sally Haslanger s Resisting Reality], in Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur 1(1), 26-34. 2013, Review of Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch s Anerkennung als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie, in Critical Horizons 14(1), 120-124. TALKS (selection) 2017, Zum Verhältnis von Anerkennung und Macht in Axel Honneths Theorie der Anerkennung [On the Relationship between Recognition and Power in Axel Honneth s Theory of Recognition], Social Philosophy Section, XXV. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Berlin. 2017, Ambivalente Anerkennung [Ambivalent Recognition], Society of Women in Philosophy Germany, Berlin. 2017, An Ideology Critique of Recognition: Judith Butler in the Context of the Contemporary Debate on Recognition, Conference Critical Theory in the Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 2017, Nicht-ideale und kritische Theorie im Vergleich: Kommentar zu Rahel Jaeggi [Comparing Non-Ideal and Critical Theory: Reply to Rahel Jaeggi], Conference Internationale Gerechtigkeit und demokratische Legitimation, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2016, On the Limitations of the Notion of Pathologies of Recognition, Workshop Social Pathologies and Mutual Recognition, University of Jyväskylä. 2015, Anerkennung und Macht im Anschluss an Axel Honneth und Judith Butler [Recognition and Power following Axel Honneth and Judith Butler], III. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie, Salzburg. 2014, Ambivalente Anerkennung [Ambivalent Recognition], Social Philosophy Section, XXIII. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, Münster. 2014, Commentary on Sally Haslanger s Concept of Ideology Critique, Workshop with Sally Haslanger, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin. 2013, Recognition and Subjection: Reconsidering the Link between Morality and Power, International Workshop The Ambivalence of Recognition, Frankfurt. 3
2012, Social Integration through Recognition: Between Normative Consent and Subjection, London Conference in Critical Thought, London. 2012, Social Integration from a Recognition-Theoretic Perspective, Prague Colloquium of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague. TEACHING (if not otherwise indicated, classes were taught in German) 2018, Graduate Seminar Analytic Philosophy and Social Critique (Goethe University (taught in English) 2018, Graduate Seminar The Positivism Dispute in German Sociology (Goethe University 2017/18, Graduate Seminar Ideal, Non-Ideal and Critical Theory (Goethe University 2017/18, Undergraduate Seminar The Science of Society: Weber and Durkheim (Goethe University 2017, Undergraduate Seminar Is There Such a Thing as Society? (Humboldt University Berlin) 2016/17, Undergraduate Seminar Introduction to Social Ontology (Goethe University 2016/17, Undergraduate Seminar Liberalism and Its Critics (Goethe University 2016, Graduate Seminar Recognition, Power, and Critique (Goethe University 2015/16, Undergraduate Seminar Recognition and Power (Humboldt University 2015, Graduate Seminar, Poststructuralism and Critical Theory (with Daniel Loick) (Goethe University 2015, Undergraduate Seminar Introduction to the Work of Judith Butler (Goethe University 2012/13, Graduate Seminar, Heidegger and Post-Analytic Philosophy (with Titus Stahl) (Goethe University 2012, Undergraduate Seminar, Contemporary Theories of Recognition (Goethe University Supervision of BA and MA theses. ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC EVENTS planned 2019, Lecture Series Contemporary Approaches to Feminist Philosophy (with Marina Martinez Mateo), Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 2018, Workshop Ideology and Critique with Sally Haslanger, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 2018, International Conference Emancipation (with Sabine Hark, Rahel Jaeggi and Thomas Seibert), Humboldt University Berlin & Technical University Berlin 2017, Public Panel Debate Philosophy and Gender (with Martin Saar), Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 2013, Doctoral Colloquium sponsored by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes What is Philosophy? Young Philosophers in Conversation (with Boris Brandhoff and Ruth Rebecca Tietjen) 2013, Workshop The Ambivalence of Recognition (with Heikki Ikäheimo and Titus Stahl), Frankfurt Institute for Social Research 4
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2017-present, Member of the Master s Programme Admission Committee, Department of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt 2017-present, Member of the Departmental Governing Board REFEREEING Philosophy & Social Criticism Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur Zeitschrift für praktische Philosophie PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie Society of Women in Philosophy Germany e.v. 5