Regina Kreide is a professor of Political and Social Theory and the History of Ideas at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
She studied Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Goethe University in Frankfurt and at Columbia University in New York. In 2001 – 2008 she worked as an assistant professor and senior lecturer of Social Sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt.
She also taught as a DAAD Visiting Lecturer at the Universidad de Antioquia Medellin in Colombia and the University of Zurich in Switzerland. In the fall 2009 she was a visiting associate professor and Theodor Heuss lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York, in 2014 a guest professor at UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico.
She is one of the directors of the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Security” (SFB) and leads a research project on “Roma Minority Formation in Modern European History” (financed by German Research Foundation).
She has published widely on global (in)justice, human rights, international law and democracy. Her most recent publications include the Habermas-Handbook, together with Hauke Brunkhorst and Cristina Lafont, Columbia UP, and in Chinese for Social Sciences Academic Press International, forthcoming 2016; Transformation of Democracy: Crisis, Protest, and Legitimation, ed. with Robin Celikates and Tilo Wesche, with Rowman&Littlefield, 2015. Her books “Global Injustice and Political Practice” and “The Repressed Democracy” (both in German) will appear 2016.