Biography
Dr. Franziska Boehme Newell joined Texas State University the fall 2019 semester as an Assistant Professor. Her research and teaching concentrate on international law and human rights with a substantive focus on colonial heritage restitution and heritage politics, as well as international criminal law and international courts. Her current book project investigates how European states have approached colonial heritage restitution, focusing particularly on the role of museum administrators and academics as well as Global South states in advocating for more openness to restitution.
Her first book, State Behavior and the International Criminal Court: Between Resistance and Cooperation (Routledge 2022), charts compliance and resistance to the ICC as a continuum and seeks to explain these state behaviors as well as the Court’s response to them. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining European states' approaches to the restitution of colonial-era plundered heritage in their national museums.
Dr. Boehme Newell's research has been supported through a variety of internal grants (COLA Seed grant, REP grant) as well as a Small Research Grant from the American Political Science Association, a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation and a research grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Global Studies Quarterly, the International Journal of Human Rights, The Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of International Organizations Studies.
Born and raised in Germany, Dr. Boehme Newell completed her Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural European and American Studies at Martin Luther University and her Master of Arts in American Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2011 she moved to Syracuse, NY where she earned her second Master of Arts degree in Political Science and in 2017 she completed her Ph.D. Prior to joining Texas State, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
Her first book, State Behavior and the International Criminal Court: Between Resistance and Cooperation (Routledge 2022), charts compliance and resistance to the ICC as a continuum and seeks to explain these state behaviors as well as the Court’s response to them. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining European states' approaches to the restitution of colonial-era plundered heritage in their national museums.
Dr. Boehme Newell's research has been supported through a variety of internal grants (COLA Seed grant, REP grant) as well as a Small Research Grant from the American Political Science Association, a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation and a research grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Global Studies Quarterly, the International Journal of Human Rights, The Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of International Organizations Studies.
Born and raised in Germany, Dr. Boehme Newell completed her Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural European and American Studies at Martin Luther University and her Master of Arts in American Studies at the University of Leipzig. In 2011 she moved to Syracuse, NY where she earned her second Master of Arts degree in Political Science and in 2017 she completed her Ph.D. Prior to joining Texas State, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
Research Interests
Dr. Boehme Newell's scholarship addresses an important question in international politics: Why and how do states support or contest global justice institutions and norms? Her research focuses mainly on two forms of transitional justice, meaning how states try to overcome legacies of past human rights violations: 1. International criminal justice and the work of international courts, and 2. Non-legal justice by former European imperial powers such as apologies or the return of colonial looted heritage.
Teaching Interests
At Texas State, she teaches classes on human rights, international law and international organizations. She also teaches the Senior Seminar in political science and international studies.