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Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 55578
Phone (Assistant)
+49 30 838 53347
Email
e.cancik-kirschbaum@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Near East
  • Assyrians
  • Babylonians
  • Sumerians
  • Akkadians
  • Israel
  • Syria
  • Iraq
  • Middle East
  • Astronomy
  • Astrology
  • Science
  • Early states
  • School and education in pre-modern societies
  • History of knowledge
  • Oldest writing
  • Decipherment
  • Nimrud
  • Nineveh
  • Libraries
  • Cuneiform
  • Sumerian
  • Akkadian
  • Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
  • 4. - 1st millennium BC
  • History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
  • Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology

Dr. Nino Ferrin

Department of Education and Psychology
Primary Education
Teaching German at the Primary Level

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 539 67
Email
nino.ferrin@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Dr. phil Nino Ferrin

Areas of Expertise

  • Media education; cultural and linguistic education
  • Education research
  • Educational anthropology
  • Theory of rituals and performativity

Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 653 46
Email
sebastian.jobs@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Jobs

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. Viola König

Institute for Latin American Studies
Cultural and Social Anthropology

Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 59749
Email
vkoenig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Viola König

Areas of Expertise

  • museum
  • ethnological museum
  • provenance research
  • Pre-Columbian America
  • ethnology of North America

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

Phone (Home)
+49 30 55640485
Email
luig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Ute Luig

Areas of Expertise

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Natural disasters
  • Sacred landscapes
  • Africa (especially East-Central and West Africa)
  • Gender studies
  • Rituals

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

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 578 47
Phone (Assistant)
+49 30 838 513 32
Email
Birgitt.Roettger-Roessler@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Birgitt Rötger-Rössler

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. Jochen Töpfer

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 505 95
Email
jochen.toepfer@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Dr. Jochen Töpfer

Areas of Expertise

  • Social, political, and economic aspects of the processes in Eastern Europe
  • Southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia
  • Privatization
  • Informality and neo-feudalism
  • Parties and political elites in transformation
  • Transboundary cooperation in border regions of the EU
  • Religion and society
  • Religion and politics

Dr. Christian von Scheve
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Group Sociology of Emotions

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 576 95
Email
christian.von.scheve@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Christian von Scheve

Areas of Expertise

  • Emotions
  • Social inequality
  • Identity
  • Economic sociology
  • Values and standards

Dr. Peter Walschburger
Professor of Biopsychology

Department of Education and Psychology
Institute of Biopsychology

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Home)
+49 30 802 47 27
Email
peter.walschburger@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Peter Walschburger

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. Christoph Wulf
Professor of Education

Department of Education and Psychology
Anthropology and Education

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 55701
Phone (Assistant)
+49 30 838 55987
Email
chrwulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf

Areas of Expertise

  • Rituals
  • Traditions
  • Globalization and education
  • Interculturalism
  • Cultural diversity
  • Anthropology
  • Historical anthropology
  • Aesthetic and cultural education

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