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We are delighted to introduce Hans Asenbaum of the University of Canberra as our 2022 Rising Star Award winner.
Established as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, the award aims to:
It is our pleasure to celebrate Hans's successes. To capture this special moment and share it with our community, we have created a short video featuring Hans, our Jury Chair Amy Verdun, and Hans’ nominator John Dryzek, Centenary Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra.
Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He holds a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London and is a co-convener of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group of the Political Studies Association (PSA).
Hans is a co-investigator of the global Participedia project, associate editor of Democratic Theory and member of the editorial board of The Journal of Deliberative Democracy. His research interests include identity and inclusion in new participatory spaces, digital politics, and theories of radical democracy.
His recent work develops a new participatory approach to theorizing democracy which calls on academics to leave the ‘ivory tower’ and co-create the meaning of democracy with bottom-up movements. In his Democratic Theorizing Project, Hans engages with Black Lives Matter activists.
Hans’ work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Studies, New Media & Society, Politics & Gender and The International Journal of Qualitative Methods, among others. He recently published the open access co-edited volume Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy with Selen Ercan, Nicole Curato and Ricardo Mendonça (Oxford University Press). His new book, The Politics of Becoming, is in press with Oxford University Press.
He tweets @Hans_Asenbaum
'I am incredibly honoured to receive this prize and feel happy to live in a world where critical voices are heard and appreciated.
I am deeply grateful for the relentless support of John Dryzek, Selen Ercan, Nicole Curato and, of course, Graham Smith who have made this possible.'
'[Hans] has delivered an outstanding academic performance throughout his career to date. His recent productivity in publications and teaching is outstanding.
[…]He has published [extensively] in international peer-reviewed journals[…] leading political science outlets[…] and his work has also appeared in high-impact journals in other disciplines.
He has won various prizes such as the 2017 Best Paper Prize of the ECPR Standing Group on Democratic Innovations and the 2021 PSA Specialist Group of the Year Award. He has made significant contributions to international research projects, for instance, the Participedia project (led by Harvard University, the University of British Columbia and McMaster University) and various visiting positions at a number of academic institutions in different countries and environments.
[…]In the past few years, he has also generously served the profession….finally, he is active in public engagement through his Democratic Theorizing Project, which includes a public website and participatory research with Black Lives Matter activists.'
Our jury also extends an honourable mention to Hannah Werner, a postdoctoral researcher in the Democratic Innovations & Legitimacy Research Group at KU Leuven, who received a joint PhD in 2020 from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Leuven.
They note in particular Hannah's admirable performance throughout her academic training (BA, MA and PhD) and her stellar record of publications in leading journals.
Keywords: Democracy, Governance