Members

Department of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology

Research interests: the fields of the philosophy of science and social ministry (diaconal dimensions of academic theology, theology departments as pastoral fields of action), research projects in the fields of pastoral psychology, feminist theology (pastoral work and gender difference), homiletics, bibliodrama and Bibliolog

Department of Systematic Theology and Liturgical Studies; Department of Fundamental Theology 

Research interests: Fundamental theology, systematic theology, philosophy of religion, urbanism, gender research and Christian anthropology

Department of the Foundations of Law, Section for Roman Law 

Research interests: Roman penal law, Roman public and institutional law (food supply, transportation and shipping, control of markets, taxation, constitutional forms and concepts), states of dependence (slavery, colonate), Gendering the Romans (Agency, Inclusion, Otherness), historiography and the history of science, anthropology of antiquity with a focus on law, Roman legal traditions and family law reforms in Europe (19th– 20^th Centuries), rhetoric schools and forensic practice

Department of History, Section for South European History and Anthropology

Research interests: Cultural- and social history of Southeastern and Eastern Europe, cultural- and social history of the fields of medicine and psychiatry, war, violence and memory, transitional justice, legal anthropology, interdisciplinary trauma research

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC) 

Research interests: cultural representations of dementia, age(ing), gender and care, medical humanities and narrative medicine, aging & care studies, age and space, medical & health humanities, North American literary and cultural studies

Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology 

Research interests: urban anthropology, aesthetic/visual/multimodal anthropology, relations between art and academia, representational critique, art in public spaces, participatory and relational art, gender studies and queer anthropology, anthropology in the Anthropocene

Department of Sociology; Main research area (FSP) 4: Sociology of Gender

Research interests: Sociology of gender, qualitative methods, sociology of literature, gender and social change

Department of Human Resource Management

Research interests: relations between power and gender in organizations, the labor market integration of refugees, operational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, HR strategies for handling migration backgrounds, working conditions in academia

Department of Old Testament Studies

Research interests: historical-critical research of the Pentateuch, Old Testament anthropology(ies), research on leadership in the Old Testament, archaeology of ancient Palestine, Ancient Near Eastern iconography, interreligious studies, historical and theological gender research

Department of History 

Research interests: Cultural- and gender history, women’s history, gender studies, women’s biographies

Department of History; Section for Cultural and Gender History 

Research interests: Gender theories, theories of culture, gender history of modernity and contemporary history, intersectionality and gender-sensitive study of nationalism, auto/biography, history of the body, museology

Department of the Foundations of Law

Research interests: History of European integration from a legal history viewpoint; development of constitutional law from 1700 to the EU, gender studies, regional history 

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC) 

Research interests: American literature & culture, indigenous literatures & cultures, aging & care studies, disability studies

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing and Care (CIRAC)

Research interests: Aging studies, intersectionality, gender and migration

Department of History; Section for Cultural and Gender History 

Research interests: Queer history, queer studies, Habsburg monarchy, nationalities

Center for Jewish Studies

Research interests: Contemporary history, cultural studies, gender studies, relations and interactions between Jews and non-Jews in Central Europe

Department of History; Section for Medieval History

Research interests: Masculinity(ies) and political culture in the late medieval Holy Roman Empire, microhistory, criminality in the Middle Ages, Angevin rulers of England

Department of History; Section for Cultural and Gender History 

Research interests: Women’s and gender history, environmental history and history of environmental activism, tourism and mobilities, regional history, history of National Socialism 

Department of Sociology

Research interests: Contemporary “contentious” gender politics (on the left and right of the political spectrum), social movements and “critical event studies”, political sociology (social movements, activism, civil society), Southeastern Europe. 

Department of History; Section for Medieval History

Research interests: History of religious communities in the European medieval period, history of institutions and power structures in the Mediterranean region

Department of Religious Studies 

Research interests: Old Testament studies, Islamic studies, women’s studies 

Department of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy and Patrology 

Research interests: Biblical exegesis and women’s studies in the context of patristics, Christian antiquity 

Department of Religious Studies

Research interests: Religion and film/TV, religion-body-gender, European history of religion

Department of Old Testament Studies 

Research interests: Research on the Pentateuch, prophetic literature and Wisdom literature, women’s and gender studies, reception history of biblical texts, the book of Jonah

Center for Inter-American Studies

Research interests: Gerontology, Americanistics/American studies, women’s and gender studies, intercultural communication

Department of Old Testament Studies 

Research interests: Right-wing populism, religious/Christian fundamentalism, anti-gender debates

Department of History

Research interests: Women’s history in the Middle Ages, gender identities, gender relations

Department of Arts and Musicology

Medieval book culture and knowledge culture, women as commissioners and addressees of art in the Middle Ages, representations of women, art history