Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle

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Professur für Praktische Philosophie
Praktische Philosophie
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Schwerpunkte
- Politische Philosophie
- Moralphilosophie
- Ethik
Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Ph.D., McGill University, Montreal, May 2007
Dissertation: Immigration, Individual Autonomy, and Social Justice: An Argument for a Redistributive Immigration Policy
(Supervisor: Alan Patten)
M.A., Marburg University, February 1997
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2019 Professor for Practical Philosophy (W2 tenured), Institute for Philosophy,
University of Hamburg
2019 Full Professor for Ethics and Applied Ethics (Cross-appointed), Department of
Philosophy, University of Ottawa
2016 - 2017 Inaugural Director & Full Professor (tenured), Centre for Philosophy, Politics and
Economics, University of Groningen, NL
2014 - 2019 Associate Professor for Ethics and Applied Ethics (Cross-appointed),
Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
2013 - 2019 Associate Professor for Ethics and Applied Ethics (tenured), Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
2009 - 2013 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Graduate School of Public and International
Affairs, University of Ottawa
2007 - 2009 Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Département de Philosophie, Université du
Québec à Montréal
2004 - 2005 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University UK
RESEARCH GRANTS
2023 Climate Change, Autonomy and Human Needs, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council Canada (PI)
2022: Vulnerability and the State, Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (PI)
2021: At the Margins of Equality: A Theory of Vulnerability to Social Exclusion, EU –
MSCE Horizon 21
2021: Graduate Program Collective Decision Making, Deutsche Forschungs-
gesellschaft – PhD Position
2018: Asylum, Refugee and Health Social Science and Humanities Research Council
Canada (PI)
2017: Justice and Markets, Social Science and Humanities Research Council Canada
(PI)
2014: Vulnerability in Health Canadian Institute for Health Research (PI)
2012: Vulnerability in Context, Social Science and Humanities Research Council
Canada (PI)
2011: The Politics and Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration (Social Science and
Humanities Research Council Canada (PI)
2011: Migration in Perspective, Deutscher Akademischer Ausstauschdienst (PI)
2010: Ethique et Politique Publique, Fonds du Québec de Recherche Scientifique
(FQRSC) (Co-Applicant)
SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
2021 – 2023 Head of Department Institute for Philosophy, University Hamburg
2020 – 2021 Deputy Head of Department, Institute for Philosophy, University of Hamburg
2016 – 2017 Inaugural Director, Centre for Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of
Groningen
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Research Funding Application Assessment Activities
- External Reviewer, Finnish Academy of Science Research Grants 2024-2025, 2025-2026
- Committee Member, DFG – Corona Projects in the Humanities Dec 2020
- Scientific Reviewer, NWO (Netherlands) 2018-2019
- Scientific Reviewer, Norway Research Council, 2017-2018
- Committee Member, CIHR Catalyst Ethics Grant Competition, 2016
- Committee Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Insight Development Grant competition, 2014 and 2015
- External Reviewer, Postdoctoral Grants, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen
(FWO), Belgium, April 2015
- External Academic Reviewer, Wellcome Trust, Ethics and Society Investigator Award
competition, December 2014
- External Reviewer, Initiative d'Excellence Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Université de Paris IV (Paris-
Sorbonne) March 2014
- External Reviewer, Scientific Cooperation, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen
(FWO), Belgium July 2012
Editorial Work
Editor, Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric (DFG funded) (http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn)
Peer-Review Activities
Book Manuscript Referee:
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Routledge
University of British Columbia Press
Manuscript Review Referee:
American Political Science Review
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Comparative Migration Studies
Critical Review of International and Social Political Philosophy
Dialogue
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Ethics and International Affairs
European Journal of Political Theory
Journal of Applied Philosophy
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Journal of Political Philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Philosophy and Medicine
Medicine and Law
Social Theory and Practice
Expert Witness Activities
2014 – 2014 Expert Witness, House of Commons Standing Committee on Migration “Issues facing
vulnerable women migrants in Canada”, Ottawa 1 April 2014
https://openparliament.ca/committees/immigration/41-2/18/prof-christine-straehle-1/only/
Committee Memberships
2018 – 2020 Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Population and Public Health,
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2016 – 2018 Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Health Promotion and Prevention,
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
MEMBERSHIPS OF ACADEMIES / SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
College of the Royal Society of Canada
Hamburger Akademie der Wissenschaften
American Philosophical Association
Canadian Philosophical Association
Society for Applied Philosophy
Publikationen
Bücher
The Political Philosophy of Refuge
David Miller and Christine Straehle (eds). (2019)
Cambridge: Cambridge University PressVulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics
Christine Straehle (ed.). (2017).
New York: RoutledgeLegislating Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (eds.). (2012).
Montreal: McGill Queens University PressHealth Inequalities and Global Justice
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (eds.). (2012)
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressL'éthique saisie par la mondialisation - la question de l'immigration.
Christine Straehle (ed.). (2010)
Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval
Publikationen in Fachzeitschriften
Relational Goods and Autonomy for Refugees:
What does it mean to stand in solidarity with refugees?
Christine Straehle (2020)
Associative Solidarity, Journal of Social Philosophy, doi: 10.111/josp.12339
Refuge and Justice in Health
Christine Straehle (2019)
Asylum Hastings Centre Report, 49 (3) May – June
Vulnerability, Rights and Social Deprivation in Temporary Labour Migration
Christine Straehle (2019)
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22 (2), 297-312.
Emotions et les conditions de l’autonomie individuelle
Christine Straehle (2018)
Philosophiques, 45 (2) 507-512
Justice in Migration
Christine Straehle (2018)
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (1), 245-265. DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2017.1353880
Justified State Partiality and the Vulnerable Subject in Migration
Christine Straehle (2017)
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 20 (6), 736-744 (doi: 10.1080/13698230.2016.1231752)
Falling into the Justice Gap? Between duties of social and global justice
Christine Straehle (2016)
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 19 (6), 645-661 (doi :10.1080/13698230.2016.1155257)
Is there a right to surrogacy?
Christine Straehle (2016)
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 33(2), 146-159
Capability to Health, Health Agency and Vulnerability
Christine Straehle (2016)
Bioethics, 30 (1), 34-40
Autonomy, Well-Being and the Order of Things: Conditions of Social and Global Justice
Christine Straehle (2013)
Les ateliers de l'Éthique/The Ethics Forum, 8(2), 110-120
Conditions of Care: Migration, Vulnerability and Individual Autonomy
Christine Straehle (2013)
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 6(2), 122-140
Territoire, migration, et l'état légitime
Christine Straehle (2013)
Philosophiques, 39(2), 393-404
Global Justice, Temporary Migration and Vulnerability
Christine Straehle (2012)
Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 5, 71-82
Global Solidarity, Migration and Global Health Inequity
Lisa Eckenwiler, Christine Straehle, Ryoa Chung (2012)
Bioethics, 26(7), 382-390
Temporary work, global redistribution and democratic justice
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2012)
Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 11(2), 206-230
Thinking about protecting the vulnerable when thinking about immigration – is there a ‘responsibility to protect’ in immigration regimes?
Christine Straehle (2012)
Journal of International Political Theory, 8(1/2), 159-171
The Missing Link: Gender, Immigration Policy and the Live-In Caregiver Program in Canada
Rachel Brickner, Christine Straehle (2010)
Policy and Society, 29, 309-320
Temporary labour migration: Exploitation, tool of development, or both?
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2010)
Policy and Society, 29, 283-294
National and Cosmopolitan Solidarity
Christine Straehle (2010)
Contemporary Political Theory, 9 (1), 110-120
Cosmopolitanism, Nation-States and Minority Nationalism: A Critical Review of Recent Literature
Will Kymlicka, Christine Straehle (1999)
European Journal of Philosophy, 7(1), 65-88.
Also published in Hungarian, Spanish, and Chinese
reprinted in Will Kymlicka, Politics in the Vernacular, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Sonderbände
Migration and Differentiated Rights.
Christine Straehle (2019)
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2)Symposium on David Miller: Strangers in our Midst
Phil Parvin, Christine Straehle (2016)
Critical Review of International Social and Political PhilosophyGlobal Reproductive Markets,
Christine Straehle, Vida Panitch (2016)
Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (2)Les droits humains – nouveaux développements
Christine Straehle (2015)
Philosophiques, 42 (2)Territorialité, identité nationale et justice mondiale
Michel Seymour, Christine Straehle (2012)
Philosophiques, 39(2)The Ethics of Migration
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2012).
Journal of International Political Theory, 8(1)Guest Work - friend or foe of an integrated immigration policy?
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2010)
Policy and Society, 29
Buchrezensionen
[Migration in Political Theory, edited by Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015]
Christine Straehle (2018)
Political Theory
[Debating Brain Drain – May Governments Restrict Emigration? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015]
Christine Straehle (2017)
Developing World Bioethics, 17 (1), 59-60. (doi:10.1111/dewb.12111)
[Griffin on Human Rights, edited by Roger Crisp, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014]
Christine Straehle (04 May 2015)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
[Multicultural Jurisdictions — Cultural Differences and Women's Rights, Ayelet Shachar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001]
Christine Straehle (2003)
Contemporary Political Theory, 2, 109-111
[We are not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity, Claude Denis, Peterborough, Broadview Press]
Christine Straehle (1997)
Canadian Journal of Political Science, 31(4), 797-798
Enzyklopädie-Einträge
Population Policies, Migration & Refugees
Christine Straehle (2013)
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (4th edition)
Bruce Jennings, Macmillan: Farmington Hills, MI
Buchkapitel
Migration and Health in the Age of the Anthropocene
Christine Straehle (2021)
Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock
Cambridge Handbook on Global Health – Ethical Challenges
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 293-303.Vulnerability, Autonomy and Self—Respect
Christine Straehle (2017)
Vulnerability, Autonomy and Applied Ethics
New York: Routledge, 33-48Ethical Reflections on Who Is At Risk: Vulnerability and Global Public Health
Christine Straehle (2014)
Garrett Brown, Gavin Yamey, Sarah Wamala
The Handbook of Global Health Policy
London: Wiley-Blackwell, 195-207L’immigration et la liberté de mouvement
Christine Straehle (2013)
Ryoa Chung et Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Éthique des relations internationales. Problématiques contemporaines
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 355-377Temporary Labour Migration in Canada
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2012
Legislating Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada
Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 3-25Introduction: Health Inequality as a Concern for Global Redistributive Justice
Patti T Lenard, Christine Straehle (2012)
Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1-16Health Care, Vulnerability and Human Agency
Christine Straehle (2012)
Christine Straehle, Patti T. Lenard (dir.)
Health Inequalities and Global Justice
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 245-262Immigration
Christine Straehle (2011)
Deen K Chatterjee (dir.)
Encyclopedia of Global Justice
Amsterdam: Springer, Vol 9, 524-526Libéralisme et justice globale: une nouvelle éthique de l'immigration?
Christine Straehle (2009)
L'éthique saisie par la mondialisation - la question de l'immigration
Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 12-27Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Political Theory
Christine Straehle (2008)
Guntram H Herb et David H Kaplan (dir.), Nations and Nationalism - A Global Historical Overview. Santa Barbara
California: ABC – CLIO, Vol 4, 1350-1364.
Stipendien und Auszeichnungen
HONOURS, FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
2023 – 2024 Professor II Institute for Philosophy, Bergen University
2022 – 2023 Senior Fellow, Swedish Colloquium of Advanced Studies
2021 Member of the Hamburg Academy of Science
2020 Associate Member, Nuffield College, University of Oxford UK
2019 Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada
2019 Royal Society of Canada – Kitty Newman Prize for Social Philosophy
2018 Visiting Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva
2015 - 2016 DAAD/John Stuart Mill Visiting Chair, Department of Philosophy, Hamburg
University
2014 Visiting Fellow, Brocher Foundation, Geneva
2013 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Department of
Philosophy, University St. Andrews, Scotland
2012 Invited Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities -
Justitia Amplificata, Frankfurt University, Germany
2011 - 2012 Research Award for Young Scholars Social Science Humanities Research Council
of Canada
2010 Best Francophone Teacher Award, Graduate School of Public and International
Affairs, University of Ottawa
2007 - 2008 Research Fellow, Summer Institute for Advanced Study on Citizenship and
Migration, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2006 - 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow Centre de Recherche en Éthique, Université de Montréal
2002-2004 Hydro Quebec Doctoral Scholarship, McGill University
1997-1998 Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy,
University of Ottawa