Julia Simon

Dr. Julia Simon is a political scientist affiliated with the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Bremen. Her work bridges European studies, political communication, and right-wing populism, with a focus on epistemological challenges to liberal democracy, gender in far-right movements, and Foucauldian governmentality. She teaches graduate courses on topics like far-right contestation of democracy and gender in international politics.

• Areas of Expertise: Polarization, democratic backsliding, European (dis)integration, migration governance, and populist rhetoric.
• Key Publications: Explores EU migration discourse, post-2020 election polarization, and conservative ideological shifts.
• Conference Involvement: Organized panels on autocratization and politicization at ECPR and European Workshops on International Studies.