Canada / United States of America
Dr. David Bosold
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Graduate School of North American Studies
Lansstraße 5-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Canada
- Canada (energy policy)
- Canada (foreign and security policy)
- Canada (economic policy)
- Canada (Arctic policy)
Dr. Miriam Flickinger
Professor of Business Administration
School of Business & Economics
Department of Management
Garystr. 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Top management teams
- Executive boards, supervisory boards
- CEO compensation
- Management
- Leadership
Dr. Winfried Fluck
Professor of American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Cultural Studies
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- American intellectual history
- American self-image
- American exceptionalism
- “Culture Wars” – Current political and cultural disputes in the U.S.A. (America Divided)
- American culture and arts
Dr. Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Professor of History
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
History and Cultural History:
- International history
- North American history
- Modern history, 19th - 21st century
- History of the USA: Culture, history, politics, diplomacy
Politics and Society:
- US foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- Humanitarian intervention
- Nation branding — self-projection and performance of nations
- Public diplomacy / cultural diplomacy
Culture and Media:
- Emotions / history of emotions
- Media history
- Music history
Continents and Regions:
- USA, North America
- Transatlantic relations
- History of US-Japanese relations
Dr. Thomas Greven
Privatdozent
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Political Science
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- American domestic and foreign policy
- Political parties and party system of the United States
- Interest groups in the U.S.
- Political campaigns in the U.S.
Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural history of the United States
- Alltagsgeschichte (history from below)
- History of New York
- Slavery in the United States of America
- African American history
- Gender history
- Political productions and rituals
- Rumors
Dr. Frank Kelleter
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Culture
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Popular culture and media history, especially serial forms
- North American colonial history / revolutionary period and early republic
- (American) Enlightenment studies
Dr. Markus Kienscherf
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Police in the United States
- Protests
- Social control
- Surveillance
- Counterinsurgency
- Political violence
Dr. Curd Knüpfer
Assistant Professor
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Political Science
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Digitality and transnational public spheres
- Media in the USA
- U.S. conservatism / Republican Party
- U.S. foreign policy and public opinion
- Political polarization
Professor of Sociology Sebastian Kohl
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews are also possible in French.
Areas of Expertise
- Housing policy
- Housing market
- Insurance market
- Finance
Dr. Viola König
Institute for Latin American Studies
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- museum
- ethnological museum
- provenance research
- Pre-Columbian America
- ethnology of North America
Dr. Christian Lammert
Professor of Political Science
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Political Science
Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Presidential election in the United States
- United States domestic, social, and health policy
- United States President and Congress
- Political parties and elections in the United States
- Canada: domestic and social policy
Dr. Julia Püschel
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of foreign trade
- Economics of the labor market
- Economic inequalities
- History of ideas in economics
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
Please note
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. Thomas Risse
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization and American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War
- European integration
- Europe and Russia
- America and Europe
- Current issues in European politics
- EU Presidency
- “EU foreign affairs”
- International relations in light of the Geneva Convention and UN Human Rights Declaration
- Fragile states
- Governance export
Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
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
Dr. Johanna Schnabel
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Research Unit Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews are also possible in French
Areas of Expertise
- Federalism (Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, USA, Belgium)
- Cooperation between federal and state governments
- Education policy
- Fiscal policy
- Corona pandemic
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. Luca Stella
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Labor economics
- Health economics
- Demography
Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Political Science
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- U.S. foreign policy
- U.S. security policy
- International institutions
- Global governance
- Diplomacy
Dr. Harald Wenzel
Professor of Sociology
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Sociology
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- (Mass) media in the U.S.
- Sociology of the public
- Religion in the U.S.
- Sociology of disasters and disaster reporting