Endowed chairs and extraordinary programs
Endowed chairs are financed for a specific period, generally either five or ten years, by a donor. After the donor’s aid to the professorship expires, the professorship is maintained by the university. Endowed professors have the same rights and obligations as other tenured professors and are not obligated to follow instructions issued by the donor.
Extraordinary program professorships are professorships that are funded based on special programs with public resources (e.g., from the DFG or the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) during a specific period.
At present, the following endowed chairs and extraordinary program professorships are being financed at Freie Universität Berlin.
- Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History / History of Latin America
Global History
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Goebel
Einstein Stiftung Berlin - East Asia and Middle East / Institute of Chinese Studies
Didactics of Chinese and Chinese Language and Literature
Prof. Dr. Andreas Guder
Hanban. Confucius Institute Headquarters - East Asia and the Middle East, Chinese Studies
Culture and history of Asia with a Focus on Religion
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer
DFG-Heisenberg-Programm
- Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology with a Focus on Social Movements and Conflicts
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Swen Hutter
VolkswagenStiftung - Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Journalism and Communication Studies with a Focus on Digitization and Participation
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Neuberger
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) - Institute of Sociology
Sociology with a Focus on the Sociology of Gender
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Zippel
Einstein Stiftung Berlin