Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

• Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
• Programmatic structure
• Economic crises
• East/West differences
• Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
• Elections
• Democracy
• Conflict structures

• Politics in Latin America
• Migration
• South America
• Central America
• Economic perspectives
• Economics and politics
• Transculturalality
• Gender

Interviews may also be conducted in French and German.

• Political and social philosophy
• Theory of democracy

• Anthropology of religion, especially Pentecostal churches and Islam in Africa
• Christian-Muslim relations
• Migration and religion
• Medical anthropology (in particular HIV / AIDS, international health policies, migration and health)
• Research on masculinity and kinship
• Anthropology of education and learning in East Africa
• Regional: Eastern and Southern Africa (especially Tanzania and South Africa)
• Context of migration

• Problems of linguistic unification
• Minority languages
• Bilingualism
• Berlin: urban language
• Youth language
• Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
• Conversational behavior, in groups and conflicts

• Turkey
• Cyprus
• Kurds
• Iraq
• Integration
• Middle East
• Kurdish conflict
• Cyprus conflict
• Relations between Turkey and the EU
• German-Turkish relations
• Relations between Turkey and Greece
• Kurds in northern Iraq
• Turkish foreign and security policy
• Turkish domestic politics
• Migration and integration policy – Germany / EU

Please request initial contact by e-mail.

• History of racism
• German colonial history
• Politics of remembrance and memory studies
• History of migration

• Nationalism
• Gender and nationalism
• Secessionist movements
• Transgender Studies with a focus on nationalism and border demarcation

• Gender history
• History of imperialism
• Spanish colonialism
• Catalan nationalism

• Political theory and philosophy
• Theory of justice
• Human rights
• Immigration / multiculturalism
• Bioethics
• Animal ethics

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

I am available to give interviews in English and French, unfortunately I am not able to give interviews in German.

• Racism/Race
• U.S. immigration policy
• International migration policy
• Political recognition of minorities
• Identity politics

Interviews are possible in English, German and French.

• 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

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

• Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (social and political structures, religious diversity, gender relations)
• Vietnamese culture in Berlin
• Cultural aspects of emotions
• Socialization, education, and child development in cultural comparison
• Emotions and migration
• Gender relations (especially transgender cultural studies)

Language, Emotion and Movement

• Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages

Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training

• Early acquisition of foreign languages
• Mixed-age learning settings
• English instruction tailored to specific individual needs

• Early modern history
• History of religion
• Cultural history
• German history
• European history
• British history
• Historical research on migration / historical research on mobility
• History of cultural transfer / exchange processes (e.g., Christianity / Islam)
• History of resources (water)

• Economics of the labor market 
• Political economics 
• Economics of migration
• Integration and migration
• U.S. economic policy 

• Semitic languages
• Arabic and Arabic dialectology (i.e., Syria, Iraq, Turkey)
• Aramaic languages in the Near East and in Europe
• Oriental Christians, past and present
• Christian-Muslim coexistence in the Near East
• Ethnic group of Arameans, Assyrians, Chaldeans
• Coexistence of Kurds and Syrian-Aramaic Christians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq)

• 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

• 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

• Anthropology: humans as natural and cultural beings (social by nature)
• Management of individual action goals (desire for autonomy) in groups
• Familiar vs. foreign: problems of integration within and between groups (xenophobia)
• Dominance hierarchies and the dynamics of power, performance, and social motivation (craving for recognition)
• Human-environment relationships; people and media; new media
• Stress and overload: conditions, symptoms, stress regulation
• Disasters; threatening and extreme situations; trauma
• Dismay effects
• Physical-psychological interactions; mind-body relationship; nature and culture
• Moods and seasonal rhythms: conditions, hormonal and psychosocial aspects (biopsychology, biometeorology)
• Weather, climate, geographical regions, and psyche: Mediterranean vs. northern regions
• Sports psychological problems
• Adventurousness, risk-taking behavior
• Sex and gender: bio-psycho-social aspects of complementarity between men and women
• Emotional aspects of development and lifespan: children and parents, teens, adults, seniors
• Methodical, scientific, and epistemological problems in the human sciences