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
Johannes Heß
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Gender and Diversity Division
Boltzmannstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Nationalism
- Gender and nationalism
- Secessionist movements
- Transgender Studies with a focus on nationalism and border demarcation
Dr. Helgard Kramer
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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Mobile
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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
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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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
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of the labor market
- Political economics
- Economics of migration
- Integration and migration
- U.S. economic policy
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