Prof. Dr. Johannes Maerk
Favoritenstraße 226, A.3.28
1100 Wien
+43 1 606 68 77-3863
johannes.maerk@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Department Administration, Economics, Security, Politics
Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and Coordinator of the Erasmus+CBHE „Strengthening Conflict Management and Transformation Studies in Africa (CONMAT)“, January 2025 to December 2027.
Education: PhD in Political Philosophy (University of Innsbruck), Postdoctoral fellow Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Current teaching appointments: University of Vienna, Diplomatic Academic Vienna, and State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) (non-resident fellow).
Invited research stints: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) – Simon Fraser University/Vancouver – University of the West Indies/Jamaica – University of Barcelona – Warsaw University – University of Ghana.
His research interests are comparative global South/EU social sciences (political thought, IR), epistemology, South-South relations, and development issues. Among his publications are the edited volumes “Existe una epistemologia latinoamericana?” and “Cómo democratizar la democracia?”, as well as articles about political thought in Latin America and Canada, Red Vienna, and other topics related to his research interests.