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Early Modern History

Dr. Kai Bremer
Professor of Modern German Literature

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Modern German Literature

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Literature of the early modern period
  • Drama
  • Contemporary drama
  • Contemporary poetry
  • Contemporary theatre
  • Theatre criticism
  • Rhetoric
  • church history
  • historical conversion research
  • confessionalisation research
  • philology
  • editorial philology
  • verse epic
  • cultural history

Dr. Dina Emundts
Professor of Philosphy

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy

Habelschwerdter 30, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • History of philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Mind (in part also theory of feelings, especially gratitude and conscience)

Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Jewish Studies

Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin

Please note

The interviews can be conducted in Hebrew.

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Judaism from antiquity to modern times
  • Jewish philosophy in the Islamic-Arabic region and in Europe
  • Christian Kabbalah (Johannes Reuchlin)
  • Science of Judaism
  • History of the Hebrew language
  • History of the sciences surrounding Judaism

Prof. Dr. Hubert Mara

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Computational Ancient Studies (CompAS)
Forensic Computational Geometry Laboratory (FCGL)

Fabeckstr. 23-24, 14195 Berlin

Please note

The interviews are available in German and English.

Areas of Expertise

  • Computer Science
  • Machine Learning
  • 3D Computer Vision
  • Archaeoinformatics
  • Digitality in the humanities and cultural sciences
  • Digital Humanitiesilable in German and English

Dr. Jasmin Mersmann
Professor of Art history

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Art History
Art History Europe and America

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Art history of the early modern period
  • Historical anthropology (body norms, body modifications, gestures)
  • Demonology
  • Art and ecology (garden art, landscape painting, botany, human-animal relations)
  • Relationship between the arts and sciences (astronomy and medicine)

Dr. Alexander Schunka
Professor of History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Early Modern History

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Early modern history
  • History of religion
  • Cultural history
  • German history
  • European history
  • British history
  • Historical research on migration / historical research on mobility
  • History of cultural transfer / exchange processes (e.g., Christianity / Islam)
  • History of resources (water)

Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
  • University History
  • Media History and New Media
  • Gender Studies
  • Global Literature
  • Spanish Literature
  • French Literature

Dr. Claudia Ulbrich
Professor of History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Early Modern History and Gender History
DFG Research Group “Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective”

Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Research on transcultural self-testimony, autobiography theory
  • Gender history
  • Christian-Jewish relations in the early modern period