Daniel Kinderman

Candidate statement

Daniel Kinderman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science & International Relations and Director of the European Studies program at the University of Delaware. He is a political economist who has a longstanding interest in German business, politics, and society. In recent years his research has focused on German business responses to the right-wing populist AfD, with a particular focus on Saxony. He has been a visiting scholar at the Free University Berlin, the Berlin Social Science Center and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and a guest professor at the University of Halle. He has received support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as from the GSA-affiliated Berlin Program fellowship. He attended the GSA conference in Washington, DC in 2015. If elected to the Board, he will support the organization and its multi- and interdisciplinary orientation to the best of his ability. In addition, he hopes to attend more GSA conferences. This summer he is based at the department of economic geography at the University of Jena. He received an MA and a Graduate Diploma in
German and European Studies from York University and a Ph.D. from Cornell’s Government Department.