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Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law

Department of Law
Public Law

Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 617 31
Email
helmut.aust@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust

Areas of Expertise

  • International law
  • Human rights
  • German and foreign constitutional law

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. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology

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

Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 593 15
Email
markus.kienscherf@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Markus Kienscherf

Areas of Expertise

  • Police in the United States
  • Protests
  • Social control
  • Surveillance
  • Counterinsurgency
  • Political violence

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)
+49 30 838 55736
Email
christine.knaevelsrud@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Christine Knaevelsrud

Areas of Expertise

  • Psychological effects of war, torture, and civilian trauma
  • Online therapy

Dr. Heike Krieger
Professor of Law and Judge in the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin

Department of Law
Public Law, Public International Law

Van't-Hoff-Straße 8, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 514 53
Email
hkrieger@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike Krieger

Areas of Expertise

  • United Nations
  • German armed forces abroad
  • Martial law
  • International and European human rights protection
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Constitutional jurisdiction
  • Protection of fundamental rights

Dr. Jan Köhler

Institute for East European Studies

Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Home)
+49 30 813 25 06
Mobile
+49 175 596 20 46
Email
jkoehler@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Areas of Expertise

  • German and international commitment
  • State-building in Afghanistan
  • Northeast Afghanistan / Eastern Afghanistan
  • Caucasus
  • Post-Soviet Union
  • Conflict research

Dr. Peter Schöttler
Professor of Modern History

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI)

Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 533 28
Phone (Home)
+49 30 86397980
Email
peter.schottler@t-online.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Peter Schöttler

Areas of Expertise

  • French and German-French history since 1789
  • Study of French and German history since Voltaire and Ranke, but particularly after 1918
  • Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, and the historical school of thought of the 'Annales'

Dr. Christian Tuschhoff
Privatdozent

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

Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin

Email
ctuschho@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Tuschhoff

Areas of Expertise

  • International relations
  • Transatlantic relations
  • German foreign policy
  • NATO

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. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of Culture and History of Modern Japan

Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies

Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin

Phone (Office)
+49 30 838 61 720
Email
u.zachmann@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and history of modern Japan
  • Intellectual history of East Asia
  • International relations of East Asia
  • Relations between Japan and China
  • Law in East Asia
  • Human rights in East Asia

Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science

Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin

Phone (Office)
25491-340 (WZB)
Email
zuern@wzb.eu
Homepage
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn

Areas of Expertise

  • Global governance
  • G8/G20 Summit
  • EU treaties
  • International organizations
  • International legalization and international rule of law
  • Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
  • War and new forms of violence
  • Peace
  • Humanitarian intervention
  • Transnational social movements
  • NGOs
  • Protest / resistance
  • Ruling authority in an international system

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