Research Focus

• Political theory of the city, urban politics, public space
• Democratic theory, democratic innovations, membership and citizenship, liberalism, transformations of democracy
• Law and politics, democratic constitutionalism, state and constitutonal theory in interdisciplinary perspective

Curriculum Vitae

Since 09-2026: Professor for Political Theory, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2025-2026: Research Associate, Univesity of Wuerzburg

2025: Habilitation and venia legendi for political science, University of Goettingen

2018-2025: Assistant Professor, University of Goettingen

2017: PhD, University of Erfurt

2017-2018: Research Associate, University of Erfurt

2013: Visiting Researcher Institut Michel Villey, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)

2012-2016: Dissertation Scholarship Cusanuswerk, FAZIT-Foundation, University of Erfurt

2011: MA Political Science, Journalism, Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig

Key Publications

Verena Frick, 2026: Urban Citizenship and National Membership: Contradictory or Complementary?, in: Political Theory 54:1, pp. 104-128.

Verena Frick, Manon Westphal, Oliver Escobar, 2026: Special Issue „Democratic Innovations beyond the Deliberative Paradigm“, in: Politics 46:1.

Verena Frick, 2024: Understanding the Democratic Promise of the City, in: Philosophy & Social Criticism 50:10, pp. 1591-1611.

Verena Frick, 2020: Das Stabilitätsversprechen der Verfassung, in: Leviathan 48, Sonderband 34 „Politische Stabilität“, pp. 74-95.

Verena Frick, 2025: Die demokratische Stadt. Versprechen, Herausforderungen, Perspektiven (Habilitation, 381 Seiten, University of Goettingen).

Verena Frick, 2018: Die Staatsrechtslehre im Streit um ihren Gegenstand. Die Staats- und Verfassungsdebatten seit 1979, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.