D. Board: Social Science (3yrs)

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.

I serve on the editorial board of German Politics & Society and German Politics, and on the executive board of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP). In addition, I serve on the executive board of the DAAD Alumni Association (USA) and in that capacity have helped to organize several events for DAAD AA (USA) including a panel at this year’s GSA annual meeting on German foreign policy in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I have had a long association with the German Studies Association and participated in many GSA annual meetings over the last 25 years. One of my first academic publications was in the GSA’s journal, German Studies Review. In addition, I organized the Political Science section of the GSA for the 2006 and 2012 conferences. My area of research is in German political parties, and I have written on both the Linke and AfD. I’m both a three-time Fulbrighter (once as a student, twice more as a Guest professor) and a German Academic Exchange Service alumnus (also as a Guest Professor). If elected, I would like to attract more political scientists to the organization and to find ways to offer cross-disciplinary collaborations.