Local Senior Fellows
All local Senior Fellows are presented here.
The social historian with a focus on Southeast Europe in the 20th century researches the history of work and gender in socialism, popular culture, everyday life and housing culture and works at the Center for Southeast European Studies.
The literary and cultural studies scholar is an Associate Professor at the Department of German Studies.
The Americanist and cultural gerontologist is head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC).
The winner of the 2017 Ars Docendi State Prize for Excellence in Teaching is Professor of Sociological Theory and History of Ideas at the Department of Sociology.
The Catholic theologian with a PhD in Old Testament Studies is also a religious teacher, cultural manager, social manager specializing in psychosocial prevention, publicist, blogger and currently works as a post-doctoral university assistant at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies.
The literary and cultural studies scholar is an associate professor at the Department of American Studies and works in the field of affect studies, gender studies and transnationalism studies, with a particular focus on intersectional and queer-feminist politics in and of literature, film, popular culture and social media.
Heidrun Zettelbauer works as a lecturer at the Institute of History and is head of the Department of Cultural and Gender History, which was newly established in 2020. Her research focuses on cultural-theoretical gender history, gender-sensitive nationalism research, German nationalism and ethnic movements, gender history of the First World War, auto/biography, body history and theoretical museology.
The historian has been Professor of Contemporary History since 2020 with a research focus on the history of communication and technology, global economic and social history, food and consumer history, migration history and the history of Mexico and Central America.
The economist, who qualified as a professor in 2006, worked as a university lecturer at the Institute of Economics and conducted research on gender equality, economic and social policy, care economics and feminist economics.
The Professor of American Studies and Director of the Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) is a cultural scientist with a special interest in age/ageing and gender.
The Professor of Gender Sociology habilitated in Cultural and Literary Studies and has held the professorship at the Institute of Sociology since 2015.
The professor of sociology is concerned with the genesis of socio-cultural expectations with regard to ageing and gender and their reactivation in the actions of actors and has been the spokesperson for the interdisciplinary research focus and research network "Heterogeneity and Cohesion" since 2009.
The Professor of Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research holds a doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Nijmegen.