Ulrike Spohn is a lecturer in political theory at the department of political science at the University of Münster, Germany. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Münster in 2016. In her dissertation, which was published by Campus in the same year, she drew on Charles Taylor's writings about secularism and on postcolonial perspectives to criticize concepts of public reason advanced in liberal political theory. Her research interests include political theory and social theory with a special focus on questions concerning religion and politics, modernity, cultural diversity, and postcolonial constellations.