Violence
Jannis Grimm
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research
Altensteinstrasse 48, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Protest and social movements
- Civil society
- Radicalization and political violence
- Human rights violations and state violence
- Repression, surveillance, and authoritarianism
- North Africa
- Near/Middle East
- Democratization and social transformation
- Arab Spring
- Islamism
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Research ethics
- Safe field research
- Research conditions in authoritarian contexts
Dr. Bettina Hannover
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Department of Education
Research on Schools and Teaching
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
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
Dr. Minu Haschemi Yekani
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Global History
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
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Please request initial contact by e-mail.
Areas of Expertise
- History of racism
- German colonial history
- Politics of remembrance and memory studies
- History of migration
Dr. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Police in the United States
- Protests
- Social control
- Surveillance
- Counterinsurgency
- Political violence
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. Christine Knaevelsrud
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Clinical-Psychological Intervention
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Psychological effects of war, torture, and civilian trauma
- Online therapy
Dr. Herbert Scheithauer
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
Developmental Science and Applied Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology an Clinical Psychology
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Areas of Expertise
- Mass shootings
- School shootings
- Aggression: development & prevention
- Mobbing / bullying
- Cyberbullying
- Radicalization, de-radicalization, anti-radicalization
- Crime / delinquency
- School violence
- Maladjustment
- Promoting development
- Developmental psychology
- Prevention
- Social competence
- Civic engagement
- Fair play
- Civil courage
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. Regine Schönenberg
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Organized crime
- Natural resource management
- Land management
- Intercultural learning
- Biography research
- Scenario research
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. Mihai Varga
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Development and economic policies in Eastern Europe
- Social movements, nationalism, and right-wing extremism in Eastern Europe
Martin Wagner
Institute for Eastern Europe
History of Eastern and Central Eastern Europe
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of Russia/the Soviet Union, 19th to 21st century
- History of China, 19th to 21st century
- History of relations between China and Russia, 17th to 21st century