Johannes Völz

Johannes Voelz is the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary PhD program “Aesthetics of Democracy,” funded by the German Research Foundation (Research Training Group 3113), which will sponsor up to 36 PhD candidates over the course of the next nine years. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg, Frankfurt’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, where he launched and co-directs the research focus „Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Atlantic World“ (with Gunther Hellmann). He is co-editor of /WestEnd: Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung/, the journal of Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research.

Professor Voelz received his dissertation from the John F. Kennedy-Institute of North American Studies of the Free University Berlin and his habilitation from Goethe-University Frankfurt. He was awarded a Heisenberg Professorship by the German Research Foundation in Over the course of his career, he has spent five years of research in the U.S., at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. In the summer term 2026, he is Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (USA).