Moritz Wullenkord is a research assistant at the Chair of Social Theory and Social Psychology.

He studied Social Science, German Studies and Philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum, the Universidad de Oviedo and the Universidade de Coimbra. Alongside his studies, he worked as a tutor for the lecture "Introduction to Social and Cultural Psychology" at the Chair of Social Theory and Social Psychology and as a tutor in the introductory module of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He was also involved as a research assistant in the edition of Hans Kilian's Collected Writings and is currently working with Pradeep Chakkarath on the publication of volume 6. He was also a research assistant in the DFG-funded international research project ‘GEN-MIGRA’ at the Technical University of Dortmund.

During his Master's degree, he was supported by a German scholarship from the Köhler Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and was a member of the Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center for Social and Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology. Together with other scholarship holders, he organized a lecture series on social and cultural science perspectives on memory cultures in the summer semester of 2022 and a symposium on the (new) right-wing restoration of images of masculinity in the summer semester of 2023. During his studies, he also worked as a volunteer and freelancer in various historical and political education projects and as a tutor in a shelter for unaccompanied refugee minors.

After completing his studies, he was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Köhler Foundation.

Moritz Wullenkord is currently working on an empirical dissertation under the supervision of Prof Dr Jürgen Straub with the working title ‘Rechte Zukunft? A qualitative study of young AfD sympathisers‘ visions of the future’. Based on qualitative interviews with 16- to 25-year-old sympathisers of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, contributions in social media, Bundestag speeches and press releases of the party as well as articles in new right-wing publications, he is investigating the processes, content and political mobilisation of young AfD sympathisers' visions of the future.

His main areas of research and interest are political psychology, political education, cultural psychology, critical theory and post-Marxism. Thematically, he is particularly interested in the social construction of images of the future as well as political authoritarianism, anti-Semitism and racism.

Publications

Wullenkord, M. (2022). Doppelte Frontstellung. Zum ideologischen Verhältnis von Antisemitismus und Rassismus im Rechtsextremismus. psychosozial, 168, 77-89.

Lectures

(September 2023)

Kritik der Disziplinarität als Kritik der Gesellschaft. Das Verhältnis von Psychologie und Soziologie als Gegenstand kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie bei Adorno und Castoriadis. Vortrag im Rahmen der Tagung "Kritik (in) der Psychologie" der Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie und der DGPs-Fachgruppe Geschichte der Psychologie

(January 2024)

Zukunftsimaginationen im autoritären Populismus. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesung "Einführung in die Sozialwissenschaft", Ruhr-Universität Bochum

(July 2024)

Overvalued Realism and Authoritarianism. Understanding Authoritarian Populism with Adorno. Vortrag im Rahmen der Konferenz „Adorno‘s Sociology“ am Research Center Social Theory der Universität Innsbruck

Zukunftsimaginationen im autoritären Populismus. Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Vorlesung "Einführung in die Sozialwissenschaft", Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Office hours

By appointment. Please email me at moritz.wullenkord@rub.de

Contact

Moritz Wullenkord
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Social Science
Chair of Social Theory and Social Psychology
Universitätsstr. 150
Building GD 1/219
D-44801 Bochum
E-Mail: moritz.wullenkord@rub.de