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Dr. Frank Kelleter
Professor of North American Studies

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

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 542 40
Email
frank.kelleter@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter

Areas of Expertise

  • Popular culture and media history, especially serial forms
  • North American colonial history / revolutionary period and early republic
  • (American) Enlightenment studies

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

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 525 74
Email
cordula.lemke@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. phil. Cordula Lemke

Areas of Expertise

  • English literature of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
  • European colonialism (especially Scotland)
  • Gender studies
  • Vampires in literature and film

Dr. Julia Leyda
Professor of Cultural Studies

Department of Political and Social Sciences
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Culture

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 581 78
Email
julia.leyda@fu-berlin.de

Areas of Expertise

  • Popular culture
  • US-American film, television, and media studies
  • The director Todd Haynes
  • Film and television depictions of domesticity during the financial crisis
  • Cuteness
  • Gender studies
  • Climate catastrophes in the media

Dr. Kathleen Loock

Department of Political and Social Sciences
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Culture

Fabeckstraße 15, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 629 21
Email
kathleen.loock@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Dr. Kathleen Loock

Areas of Expertise

  • U.S. American popular culture, especially serial forms
  • Film and media history, especially remakes, sequels, and prequels in Hollywood cinema
  • Christopher Columbus in US-American cultural history, Columbus Day, holidays

Dr. Martin Lüthe
Professor of North American Studies

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Culture

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 594 03
Email
martin.luethe@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Martin Lüthe

Areas of Expertise

  • African American studies
  • Gender studies
  • Popular culture
  • History of the mass media
  • Pop music

Dr. Elena Meyer-Clement
Professor of Chinese Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Graduate School of East Asian Studies

Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 599 36
Email
elena.meyer-clement@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Elena Meyer-Clement

Areas of Expertise

  • Political, economic, and social change in the PRC, in particular:
    • Urbanization
    • Transformation of rural areas
    • Chinese Communist Party
    • Private enterprise
    • Cultural policy

Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 58898
Email
carola.richter@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Carola Richter

Areas of Expertise

  • Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
  • Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
  • Foreign reporting
  • Image of Islam
  • Media and the Middle East conflict
  • Media and migration / refugees

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

Phone (Office)
+49 39 838 54290
Email
susanne.scharnowski@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Dr. Susanne Scharnowski

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. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures

Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 550 06
Email
anita.traninger@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger

Areas of Expertise

  • Rhetoric (history, theory, and practice)
  • History of universities
  • History of education
  • Gender studies
  • Spanish literature
  • French literature
  • History of emotions

Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods

Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 578 75
Email
trebbe@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Joachim Trebbe

Areas of Expertise

  • The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
  • Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
  • Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
  • The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
  • Religion in the media

Torsten Tschacher
Professor of Islamic Studies

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Islamic Studies

Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 653 64
Email
torsten.tschacher@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Torsten Tschacher

Areas of Expertise

  • Islam in South Asia
  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Singapore
  • Indians in Southeast Asia

Dr. Bryan van Sweringen

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Dept. of History and Dept. of Political Science

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Email
alterami@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Dr. Bryan van Sweringen

Areas of Expertise

  • World War I and World War II
  • U.S. national security policy from 1917 to 2010
  • Occupation in Germany and Berlin by the U.S. Armed Forces
  • Stationing of U.S. forces in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • Military tradition in the U.S.
  • Political cabaret

Dr. Christian Volk
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science

Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 61 455
Email
christian.volk@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Christian Volk

Areas of Expertise

  • Transformation of democracy
  • Protest and democratic theory
  • Constitution of political orders
  • Critical theory
  • Philosophy of Hannah Arendt
  • Coming to terms with the past and memory culture

Dr. Harald Wenzel
Professor of Sociology

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

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 527 02
Email
wenzelha@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Harald Wenzel

Areas of Expertise

  • (Mass) media in the U.S.
  • (Mass) media and popular culture
  • Politainment: politicians as actors
  • Sociology of prominence
  • Sociology of the public
  • What is the role of mass media during election campaigns?
  • Religion in the U.S.
  • Sociology of disasters and disaster reporting

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