Dominic Nyhuis

Candidate statement

Dominic Nyhuis (PhD, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2015) is DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor for German Studies at the Department of Political Science and the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his current appointment, he was affiliated with the Universities of Hannover, Frankfurt/Main, and Vienna. In his research, he focuses on contemporary German politics with an emphasis on political parties and legislative politics. In addition to this work on German federal politics, he is particularly interested in subnational and local politics. In his current research project “Representation and inequality in local politics,” Nyhuis studies disparities in the representation of social groups in German local politics. His research projects are funded by the German Research Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. Nyhuis has participated in the GSA since 2019. He co-organized a seminar on “German party politics in times of change and uncertainty” during the 2020 GSA. For the 2021 conference, he co-organized a seminar on “German parliamentary democracy in transition.” He also joined the Program Committee for the 2021 GSA as field co-coordinator for “Contemporary Politics, Economics, and Society.”