Marie-Thérèse Montana
Curriculum Vitae
Marie-Thérèse Montana is a guest in 2023. She studied law
and psychology in Hamburg and Honolulu and subsequently obtained her Diploma in
Law in 2012 and a Master’s in Higher Education in 2015. During this time, she
worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Private International Law, for the
German-American Lawyers’ Association, and later as a research assistant at the
University of Hamburg. Her LLM at Berkeley marked the beginning of her
transition to philosophy and so she took up graduate studies in moral and
political philosophy in Göttingen and Cambridge. Marie-Thérèse is currently
working on her PhD project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Holmer Steinfath
(GAU) which takes a constructive approach to integrating political liberalism
and political realism and ventures into a possible framework which can
accommodate overlapping consensus as well as modus vivendi within justice
theory. Here, the question of deep disagreement on justice in diverse societies
is central. Her research aims to contribute to answering the question of what role
diversity plays in theorizing about justice and, in turn, how to conceptualize
distributive and non-distributive justice in light of ever-increasing
diversity. Marie-Thérèse is also interested in relational egalitarianism, the
theory of recognition, and the politics of identity and difference. She is also
a lecturer at the faculty of law at the University of Hamburg where she has
been teaching classes on topics in political theory, EPP, PPL, and PPE since
2018.