Eunike Piwoni received her Ph.D. from Bamberg University in Germany and was a member of the graduate school “Markets and Social Systems in Europe.” She holds a diploma in Eastern European Cultural and Business Studies from Passau University. Having been supervised by German social philosopher Richard Münch, she examined national identity change in Germany in the past three decades. Her stay at Columbia University was funded by the German Research Foundation, and while staying at the ISHR she researched which notion of nationhood is argued in political philosophers’ global discourse on human rights.