Anja Hennig

Dr. Anja Hennig serves as a Scientific Staff Member and Researcher at the Department of Comparative Political Science within the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at Europa-Universität Viadrina. She has held a research assistant position at the Chair of Comparative Politics since 2010 and is an active founding member of the Institute for European Studies (IFES), contributing to interdisciplinary research on European integration.

Her educational background includes a PhD in Political Science (2011, summa cum laude) from Europa-Universität Viadrina with the dissertation 'Moral Politics and Religion in Catholic Societies,' supervised by Prof. Michael Minkenberg and Prof. Matthias Koenig. Prior studies spanned Political Science at the University of Potsdam, University of Wrocław, and Freie Universität Berlin (1995-2002).

Dr. Hennig specializes in the comparative analysis of religion-politics intersections in contemporary Europe, with acute focus on transnational resistance to gender equality as illiberal reactions to liberal policies. Her work extensively examines Polish politics, Catholicism-nationalism dynamics, moral-political conflicts, and German-Polish civil society relations using robust social science methodologies and comparative policy field research.

She received doctoral funding from the Robert Bosch Foundation and German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and served as a consultant for Poland and Russia at the State Chancellery of Brandenburg (2018-2020). As a founding IFES member since 2017, she develops institutional frameworks for European transnational research while maintaining active teaching responsibilities through university course offerings.