Jan Schumacher
Jan Schumacher
Student Assistant
Institute of Political Science
Chair of Human Rights Politics
- Email: jan.p.schumacher@fau.de
Jan Schumacher is a student assistant at the Chair of Human Rights Politics, where he supports the Academic Freedom Index project, among others. He is currently completing his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Theatre and Media Studies. He also studied at the University of Wroclaw and spent an exchange semester at Högskolan Dalarna in Sweden. Schumacher is interested in research on democracy and methods for measuring it. His bachelor’s thesis deals with ‘The Democratic Capabilities Approach: An Alternative Approach to Measuring Democracy’.