Extremism
Dr. Endre Borbáth
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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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. Hajo Funke
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Fundamentals of Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- National Socialism
- Dealing with National Socialism
- Right-wing extremism
- Issues of democracy and political culture
- Middle East (Israel/Palestine conflict, the situation in Iran and Iraq)
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. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology
Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social movements
- Protest
- Political parties
- Right-wing populism
- Civil society
- Europe
Dr. Helgard Kramer
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Anti-Semitism
- Neo-Nazis
- Research on Nazi perpetrators
- Gender, minorities, and globalization
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
Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- social inequality
- voting behavior
- social policy
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
Phone (Office)
Phone (Home)
Homepage
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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. 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
Prof. Dr. Christian von Sikorski
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Media Effects
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
Media effects research and political communication, especially the effects of digital media.
- Political polarisation
- Effect and handling of misinformation and disinformation
- Role and impact of ‘new communicators’ on digital media channels, for example (political) influencers
- Effect of political scandal reporting