Migration / Integration
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. Marianne Braig
Professor of Political Science
Institute for Latin American Studies
Division of Political Science
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Politics in Latin America
- Migration
- South America
- Central America
- Economic perspectives
- Economics and politics
- Transculturalality
- Gender
Dr. Robin Celikates
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy
Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin
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Interviews may also be conducted in French and German.
Areas of Expertise
- Political and social philosophy
- Theory of democracy
Dr. Norbert Dittmar
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for German and Dutch Languages and Literature
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition
Pohlstraße 5, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Problems of linguistic unification
- Minority languages
- Bilingualism
- Berlin: urban language
- Youth language
- Pidgin German spoken by Turkish immigrants
- Conversational behavior, in groups and conflicts
Dr. Gülistan Gürbey
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- 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
Dr. Bernd Ladwig
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Political theory and philosophy
- Theory of justice
- Human rights
- Immigration / multiculturalism
- Bioethics
- Animal ethics
Dr. Hans Merkens
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Empirical Education
Fabeckstraße 69, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Transformation of the education system
- Youth violence
- Problems in teaching children with migration background
- Situation of immigrant children in elementary and secondary education
- Multi-track systems in secondary education
- Success of structural changes in the school system
Louisa Prause
Political Scientist
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Junior Research Group: "Global Change - Local Conflcts?"
Boltzmannstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Conflicts over land, mining, and resources
- Social movements in Africa
- Land grabbing
- Development cooperation
- Western Africa
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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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. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- 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
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Collaborative Research Centre 1171: Affective Societies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- 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)
Dr. Alexander Schunka
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History
Early Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- 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)
Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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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