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Sociology

Dr. Endre Borbáth

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

Please note

Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

Areas of Expertise

  • Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
  • Programmatic structure
  • Economic crises
  • East/West differences
  • Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
  • Elections
  • Democracy
  • Conflict structures

Dr. Gunter Gebauer
Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy
Anthropology, Philosophy of Language, Social Philosophy

Thielallee 43, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Soccer
  • Culture-specific differences in soccer
  • Role of the referee
  • Sociology of sport
  • Soccer fans
  • Olympia
  • Historical anthropology
  • Linguistic theory
  • Philosophy of language
  • Social philosophy
  • Aesthetics
  • Anthropology of language
  • Theories of practice
  • Philosophy of movement
  • Languages of emotion

Dr. Jürgen Gerhards
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Macrosociology

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural similarities and differences between EU member states and candidate states
  • Cultural sociology
  • Public sociology

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. Jan Paul Heisig
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • Links between social and health inequality, including consequences of the coronavirus pandemic
  • Healthy aging
  • Discrimination and inequalities in health care
  • Data infrastructures for research on social-health inequalities and pandemic emergencies

Sebastian Hoppe

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
  • politics and economy in the Russian Far East
  • Russian-Chinese relations
  • regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine

Professor of Sociology Sebastian Kohl

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

Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin

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Interviews are also possible in French.

Areas of Expertise

  • Housing policy
  • Housing market
  • Insurance market
  • Finance

Dr. Adelheid Kuhlmey
Professor of Medical Sociology

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Center for Human and Health Sciences
Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science

Luisenstraße 57, 10117 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Medical sociology
  • Demographic change and implications for the development of the health care system
  • Health care and nursing care for the elderly / nursing care research
  • Gender comparison of aging and health
  • Health promotion in old age
  • Familial support in old age / family members as caregivers
  • Professionalization
  • Health professions and nursing: academization and career opportunities

Dr. Mirco Liefke

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics

Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Public service broadcasting
  • Transformation processes of digitalization
  • Structural change of the public sphere
  • New forms of the public sphere
  • Journalism
  • News journalism
  • Television news
  • crisis and conflict reporting
  • cultural transformation
  • Media change
  • Innovative forms of journalism
  • Interpretative methods of social research
  • Ethnography

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. Helen Niemeyer

Department of Education and Psychology
Psychology
Division of Clinical Psychological Intervention

Schloßstraße 1, 12163 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Online therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Socioeconomic status and mental health
  • Publication bias in psychotherapy research
  • Interdisciplinary research (sociology and psychology)
  • Open Science

Dr. Cornelia Reiher
Professor of Japanese Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar of East Asian Studies / Japanology
Graduate School of East Asian Studies

Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin

Areas of Expertise

  • Japan
  • Globalization
  • Food studies
  • Global agri-food system
  • Food safety
  • Rural Japan
  • (Local) identities
  • Rural revitalization

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

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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. 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. Jürgen Schupp
Professor of Sociology

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
S-Professor Professor of Sociology with a focus on methods of empiricial social research

Garystraße 55, 14195

Areas of Expertise

  • Unconditional basic income
  • Panel surveys and longitudinal data

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

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

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

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