Gender Research
Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami
Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute for Islamic Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Islam in Europe
- Religious policy
- Secularization concepts
- Political theory (especially: liberalism theories, feminist theories, theories of multiculturalismn)
- Islam and gender
Friederike Beier
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Gender and Diversity
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Feminist state theory
- Social reproduction / care work
- Gender in global governance
- Time theory and policy
- Equality policy
- Feminist theory
Dr. Marianne Braig
Professor of Political Science
Institute for Latin American Studies
Division of Political Science
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Politics in Latin America
- Migration
- South America
- Central America
- Economic perspectives
- Economics and politics
- Transculturalality
- Gender
Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Professor of Social Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology of religion, especially Pentecostal churches and Islam in Africa
- Christian-Muslim relations
- Migration and religion
- Medical anthropology (in particular HIV / AIDS, international health policies, migration and health)
- Research on masculinity and kinship
- Anthropology of education and learning in East Africa
- Regional: Eastern and Southern Africa (especially Tanzania and South Africa)
- Context of migration
Dr. Johanna Fabricius
Professor of Classical Archaeology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Classical Archaeology
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Greek archaeology (main focus: Classical and Hellenistic periods)
- Greek and Roman sculpture
- Visual culture of Greek and Roman antiquity
- Necropolis research
- Hellenistic cities of Eastern Greece
- Gender studies
- Ancient history of the body
- Archaeology and cognitive linguistics
- Cast collection
Dr. Anne Fleig
Professor of German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Literature of the Enlightenment period
- Literature around 1800
- Cultural modernity
- Contemporary literature (after 1989)
- History of drama and theater
- Theory and history of the body
- History and aesthetics of sports
- Literature by women
- Gender studies
- Transcultural contemporary literature
- Cultural history of the concept of “trust”
Dr. Bettina Hannover
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Department of Education
Research on Schools and Teaching
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Differential development of girls and boys
- Gender roles, family
- Influence of the parental home
- Violence
- Adolescents
- Nursery schools and schools
- Academic development of children and young people with immigrant background
- Self and identity
Johannes Heß
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Gender and Diversity Division
Boltzmannstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Nationalism
- Gender and nationalism
- Secessionist movements
- Transgender Studies with a focus on nationalism and border demarcation
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. Ingrid Kasten
Professor of Medieval German
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Language
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Gender research in medieval studies
- Lyric poetry
- Mysticism and women
- Novels
- Short novels in verse
- Literary history of emotionality
- Literary theory and medieval literature
Tobias Klee
John F. Kennedy Institute
History
Boltzmannstraße 20, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Gender history
- History of imperialism
- Spanish colonialism
- Catalan nationalism
Dr. Doris Kolesch
Professor of Theater Studies
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Theater Studies
Grunewaldstr. 35, 12165 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural studies
- Theory, aesthetics, and history of the theater
- Performative arts of the present (performance, installation, etc.)
- Cultural emotion research
- Voice
- Gender studies
Dr. Helgard Kramer
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anti-Semitism
- Neo-Nazis
- Research on Nazi perpetrators
- Gender, minorities, and globalization
Dr. Annette Lehmann
Professor of Theater Studies
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Theater Studies
Grunewaldstr. 35, 12165 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Art and new media
- Relationship between mediality and visuality
- Gender and queer studies
- Modern and contemporary art
- Performance art
- Cultural management, exhibition and media management
Dr. Cordula Lemke
Professor of English Language and Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- English literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
- European colonialism (especially Scotland)
- Gender studies
- Vampires in literature and film
Dr. Ute Luig
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Teutonenstraße 24, 14129 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- HIV/AIDS
- Natural disasters
- Sacred landscapes
- Africa (especially East-Central and West Africa)
- Gender studies
- Rituals
Dr. Martin Lücke
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Division of History Education
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Research on homosexuality
- Gender and diversity studies
- History lessons and historical learning
- History and reception of the Holocaust
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. Renata Motta
Professor of Sociology
Institute for Latin American Studies
Sociology
Rüdesheimerstr. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social movements
- Social inequalities
- Rural sociology
- Food studies
- Gender and feminism
Dr. Anja Prummer
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
Department of Economics
Microeconomics
Boltzmannstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Economics
- Political Economy
- Gender
Professor of Law Bettina Rentsch
Department of Law
Civil Law
Junior Professor for Civil Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law
Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews are possible in English, German and French.
Areas of Expertise
- Private international law
- International civil procedure
- Harmonization of European private law
- Corporate law
- Social theory in business/corporate law
- Anti-Semitism in private law
- Feminist theory and private law
Dr. Barbara Riedmüller
Professor of Social Policy
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Social Policy and Comparative Studies
Marienbader Straße 13, 14199 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Comparison of European welfare states
- Labor market
- Social policy
- Development of social security
- Pension reform
- Gender inequality in the social and labor market
- Diversity
- Poverty
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Collaborative Research Centre 1171: Affective Societies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (social and political structures, religious diversity, gender relations)
- Vietnamese culture in Berlin
- Cultural aspects of emotions
- Socialization, education, and child development in cultural comparison
- Emotions and migration
- Gender relations (especially transgender cultural studies)
Dr. Ralf Schlechtweg-Jahn
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Medieval German Literature and Linguistics
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German literature of the Middle Ages
- Literary theory, especially narratology
- Religion in medieval literature
- Power and violence in medieval literature
- Medieval reception
- Computer games
Dr. Sabine Schülting
Professor of English Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Shakespeare and English literature and culture of the early modern period
- English literature and culture of the 19th century
- Gender studies
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
Dr. Peter Walschburger
Professor of Biopsychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Institute of Biopsychology
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Anthropology: humans as natural and cultural beings (social by nature)
- Management of individual action goals (desire for autonomy) in groups
- Familiar vs. foreign: problems of integration within and between groups (xenophobia)
- Dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of power, performance, and social motivation (craving for recognition)
- Human-environment relationships; people and media; new media
- Stress and overload: conditions, symptoms, stress regulation
- Disasters; threatening and extreme situations; trauma
- Dismay effects
- Physical-psychological interactions; mind-body relationship; nature and culture
- Moods and seasonal rhythms: conditions, hormonal and psychosocial aspects (biopsychology, biometeorology)
- Weather, climate, geographical regions, and psyche: Mediterranean vs. northern regions
- Sports psychological problems
- Adventurousness, risk-taking behavior
- Sex and gender: bio-psycho-social aspects of complementarity between men and women
- Emotional aspects of development and lifespan: children and parents, teens, adults, seniors
- Methodical, scientific, and epistemological problems in the human sciences
Dr. Gülay Çağlar
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Gender & Diversity
Ihnestr.22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Gender research and feminist theories
- Economics and politics
- Nutritional practices and political resistance
- (International) nutrition policy
- Global governance
- Transnational women's movements
- Agriculture