Modern History / Contemporary History (19th - 21st century)
Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Berlin School for Comparative European History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Resistance against the Nazi regime
- Organizations of the Nazi dictatorship
- Warfare
- Anti-Semitism
- Policy toward Jews
- Hitler’s personality
- Broad internal and external policies of the “Third Reich”
- Relationship of political institutionalization and social anchoring of Europe
- Economic, social, and cultural interactions
- History of the EEC, EC, and EU
- Fascism in Europe (1918 - 1945)
- Dealing with National Socialism
- Fascism and collaboration in Europe after 1945
- History of the GDR
- Historical terrorism research
- History of memories of the Second World War
Dr. Stefan Bollinger
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Domestic Policy and System Comparison
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Areas of Expertise
- Discontinued “peaceful revolution” in the GDR 1989/90
- General orientation, changes, the rise and collapse of socialism in the 20th century
- History and politics of the GDR and problems in achieving German unification
- History of Eastern Europe in 1917 and 1944/45 to 1990/91
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)
Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Professor of History
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
History and Cultural History:
- International history
- North American history
- Modern history, 19th - 21st century
- History of the USA: Culture, history, politics, diplomacy
Politics and Society:
- US foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- Humanitarian intervention
- Nation branding — self-projection and performance of nations
- Public diplomacy / cultural diplomacy
Culture and Media:
- Emotions / history of emotions
- Media history
- Music history
Continents and Regions:
- USA, North America
- Transatlantic relations
- History of US-Japanese relations
Dr. Volker Hess
Professor of Medicine
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Charité Center 1 for Health and Human Sciences
Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine
Thielallee 67-73, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of medical practices and techniques in the 19th and 20th centuries
- History of biological drugs and drug regulation
- Cultural history of psychiatry
- History of medicine
- History of medicine in Berlin
Dr. Hanno Hochmuth
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam
Friedrich-Meineke-Institut:
Koserstraße 20, 14495 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Berlin
- Public history
- Babylon Berlin (television series)
- History in film and television
- Gentrification
- History of the GDR
Dr. Oliver Janz
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of World War I
- History of Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries
Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural history of the United States
- Alltagsgeschichte (history from below)
- History of New York
- Slavery in the United States of America
- African American history
- Gender history
- Political productions and rituals
- Rumors
Dr. Anna Karla
Professor of Modern History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute
Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews are also possible in French.
Areas of Expertise
- Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Revolutions
- First World War
- Weimar Republic
- France
Dr. Robert Kindler
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
History of Eastern Europe
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- History of Eastern Europe (Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Stalinism, memory culture)
- special regional expertise: Kazakhstan, Siberia, North Pacific
Dr. Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek
Professor of German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
German Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Culture of emotions
- Satire, irony, comedy
- German-Jewish contemporary literature
- Modern poetry
- Theater of the Enlightenment
- Neurocognitive poetics
Dr. Paul Nolte
Professor of Modern History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary German history
- German society and politics in historical and contemporary dimensions
- Democracy, past and present
- Transformation of the political party system, elections, and social milieus
Dr. Julia Reuschenbach
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany
Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Election and party research
- Political communication and political culture
- German contemporary history after 1945
- politics of history and culture of memory
- political science teaching at universities
Dr. Dr. h. c. Stefan Rinke
Professor of History
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of globalization
- Colonial history
- History of Latin America from Columbus to the present
- First World War
- Migration
- Americanization
- Beginnings of aviation
- History of soccer
Dr. Tobias Rupprecht
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Cluster of Excellence ”Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”
Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Political economy of state socialism in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia
- Role of economists in transformation processes
Dr. Susanne Scharnowski
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Cultural Studies Program for International Exchange Students
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Debates about the concept of “Heimat”
- German regional literature and films
- “Heimat” and propaganda
- “Heimat” and criticism of progress
- “Heimat” vs. environment
- “Heimat” as a European phenomenon
- International student exchange (international students in the German school system)
Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Economics of the labor market
- Political economics
- Economics of migration
- Integration and migration
- U.S. economic policy
Dr. Shabo Talay
Professor of Semitic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies
Semitic Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Semitic languages
- Arabic and Arabic dialectology (i.e., Syria, Iraq, Turkey)
- Aramaic languages in the Near East and in Europe
- Oriental Christians, past and present
- Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Near East
- Ethnic group of Arameans, Assyrians, Chaldeans
- Coexistence of Kurds and Syrian-Aramaic Christians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict
Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and history of modern Japan
- Intellectual history of East Asia
- International relations of East Asia
- Relations between Japan and China
- Law in East Asia
- Human rights in East Asia