FABIAN WENDT
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and core faculty member of the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. I live in Pearisburg, Virginia.

I was born and raised in Munich, Germany. I earned my M.A. in philosophy and political science from the University of Regensburg in 2005, and my Ph.D. in philosophy from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2008. I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hamburg on a (back then typical) fixed-term contract from 2009-2015. In the 2013/2014 academic year I was on leave, visiting the University of Arizona with a scholarship from the German Research Foundation. In 2015, I earned my Habilitation in philosophy from the University of Hamburg and, after two years as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University, I transitioned to the United States in 2017. I held postdoc positions at Chapman University in California and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before starting my tenure-track position at Virginia Tech in 2021.

My main research interests are
1) the justification of the practice of private property and its distributional implications; 2) the nature and justification of political authority and state legitimacy; and 3) political morality beyond justice, in particular the morality of making compromises in politics and the ideal of public justifiability. I won the 2017 Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy for my paper "Rescuing Public Justification from Public Reason Liberalism".
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My email is [email protected], and I'm on academia, philpeople, google scholar, facebook, and instagram. Don't hesitate to get in touch!

You can download my C.V
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Since 2015, I've been the co-organizer of the workshop series "Workshop für Politische Philosophie".

I regularly organize the PPE Cinema at Virginia Tech.

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