German Studies Dozenten
Research Interests: European Union, external democracy promotion, civil society, transnational social movements, concepts of democracy
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics, York University, Toronto (current); Postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area”, Leipzig (2019-2020); Research Associate at the Department of Politics, Magdeburg University (2019); DAAD Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, Toronto (2018-2019)
Recent Publications: Latest Book: “Globalization, EU Democracy Assistance and the World Social Forum: Concepts and Practices of Democracy”. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan 2018; Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Global Pandemic, Local Solidarity: Six Civic Initiatives from Leipzig, Germany” (mit Leon Rosa Reichle) in Culture, Practice and Europeanizaton 2021, 6(1), pp. 39-54; “Neoliberalism and European Democracy Promotion” in Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope (ed.): The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2019, 1-23; “Occupied Space: Repräsentation, Partizipation und Demokratie in Occupy Wall Street” in Hubertus Buchstein (ed.): Die Versprechen der Demokratie. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013, 249-67.
Host University: York University
Host Department: Department of Politics
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Department of Politics
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON, M3J 1P3
Canada
Tel.: (416) 736-5265
Fax: (416) 736-5686
Email: michaf@yorku.ca
Research Interests: Intermediality (Words and Music), Popular Culture, Music Aesthetics and History, Modern and Contemporary Literature, the Short-Story
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Professor at the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (current); Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau (2017-2022); Assistant Professor in Modern English Literature at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (2014-2017)
Recent Publications: Words, Music, and the Popular. Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave 2021 (co-edited with Susan Winnett); “Remix Aesthetics and the Musicalization of Sound in Matthew Herbert’s The Music (2018)” in Walter Bernhart and Werner Wolf (eds.): ‘Make It Old’: Retro Forms and Styles in Literature and Music. Amsterdam & Boston, MA: Brill/Rodopi 2022, 221-246; “Coherence and Counterpoint: Music in the Modern Short Story” in Rachael Durkin, Peter Dayan, Axel Englund and Katharina Clausius (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. London: Routledge 2022, 302-311; “‘Popularity is a game’: Music, Identity and the Popular in Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing (2009)” in Norbert Bachleitner and Juliane Werner (eds.): Popular Music and the Poetics of Self in Fiction. Leiden & Boston, MA: Brill 2021, 97-117.
Host University: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Host Department: Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch
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Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
320 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Tel.: (612) 625-2080
Email: tgurke@umn.edu
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Host University: University of California, San Diego
Host Department: Department of History
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Department of History
University of California, San Diego
Department of History
Arts and Humanities Building
9500 Gilman Drive, #0104
La Jolla, CA 92093
USA
Tel.: (858) 534-1996
Email: j5hansen@ucsd.edu
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Host University: University of Toronto
Host Department: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Department of History
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University of Toronto
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Odette Hall, 3rd floor
50 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Canada
Tel.: (416) 926-2324
Email: tobias.hof@utoronto.ca
Research Interests: Immigration and Immigrant Integration, Populism and Nationalism, Conspiracy Myths, Popular Culture, Jewish History and Religion, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Race and Racism, Religion in the Public Sphere
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for European Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville (since 2022); Visiting Research Scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (2019-2022); Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy Fellow at the Center for German Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2019)
Recent Publications: Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Deep State, Child Sacrifices, and the “Plandemic”: The Historical Background of Antisemitic Tropes within the QAnon Movement”, in Antisemitism on Social Media, ed. Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher, 18–34 (Routledge, 2022); “Beyond Jewish Racial Justice Activism: Can Jewish Tradition Guide Us in Times of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter?”, Journal of Jewish Ethics 8,1 (2022): 25–41; “The Protestant Spirit of the Berlin Neutrality Law: An Old-New Kulturkampf against Religious Minorities in the Public Sphere”, German Studies Review, 45,2 (2022): 283–305; “The Eternal George Soros: The Rise of an Antisemitic and Islamophobic Conspiracy Theory”, in Europe: A Continent of Conspiracies, ed. André Krouwel and Andreas Önnerfors, 163–184 (Routledge, 2021); “Telling Holocaust Jokes on German Public Television: The German-Israeli Comedian Shahak Shapira and His Satirical Show on Jews, Antisemites and the Rest”, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 10,20 (2021): 7–17.
Host University: University of Florida
Host Department: Center for European Studies
Contact:
Center for European Studies
University of Florida
3324 Turlington Hall
P.O. Box 117342
Gainesville, FL 32611-7342
USA
Tel.: (352) 294-7140
Fax: (352) 392-8966
Email: alanger@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Modern German and Jewish History, Modern Intellectual History, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, History of Antisemitism
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of History and the Department of German, University of California, Berkeley (current); Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (2014-2022); 2015/16 Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; 2016/17 Visiting Chair at the Martin Buber Institute for Judaic Studies at the University of Cologne; Fellow of the Historisches Kolleg Munich (2020-2021)
Recent Publications: Monographs: Friedrich Pollock – The Eminence Grise of the Frankfurt School. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2023 (in preparation); Wahlverwandtschaften. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Freundschaft im deutschen Judentum, 1888-1938. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2023 (in preparation); Friedrich Pollock – Die graue Eminenz der Frankfurter Schule. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019; Volk oder Religion? Die Entstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland, 1782-1848. Göttingen, Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014 (awarded with the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities). Edited volumes and special issues: Die Frankfurter Schule und der Holocaust. Special issue of Münchner Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 16, 2 (2022); „Dunkle Denker“: Jewish Readings of the Counter-Enlightenment. Special section of the Journal of Modern Jewish History 21, 4 (2022); Rethinking the Age of Emancipation: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family and Religion in Italy and Germany. New York, Oxford: Berghahn 2020 (with Martin Baumeister and Ruth Nattermann).
Host University: University of California, Berkeley
Host Departments: Department of History and Department of German
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Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
3207 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
USA
Tel.: (510) 642-1971
Email: plenhard@berkeley.edu
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Host University: University of Cincinnati
Host Department: Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies
Contact: University of Cincinnati
Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies
741 Old Chemistry Building
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0372
Tel.: (513)556-0449
E-mail: rehberpr@ucmail.uc.edu
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Host University: Vanderbilt University
Host Department: Max Kade Center for European Studies/Department for Political Science
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Vanderbilt University
Max Kade Center for European and German Studies
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1806
Tel.: (919) 962-3334
Email: alexander.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu
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Host University: Université de Montréal
Host Department: Département de littératures et de langues du monde
CP-6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal, QC H3C 3J7
Canada
Tel.: (514) 343-6111
Email: regine.straetling@umontreal.ca
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Host University: University of Pittsburgh
Host Department: Department of History
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Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
3702 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
230 South Bouquet Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
Tel.: (412) 648-7454
Email: mat595@pitt.edu
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Host University: University of Ottawa
Host Department: School of Political Studies and Faculty of Social Sciences
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Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
120 Université (FSS)
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel.: (613) 562-1718
Email: jvolkel@uottawa.ca
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Host University: University of Texas at Austin
Host Department: Department of Germanic Studies
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University of Texas at Austin
Department of Germanic Studies
Burdine Hall 336
2505 University Ave, C3300
Austin, TX 78712
Tel.: (512) 471-4123
Email: jana.weiss@austin.utexas.edu
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Host University: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Host Department: Department of Political Science
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Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
361 Hamilton Hall, CB#3265
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
USA
Tel.: (919) 962-3041
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Host University: Georgetown University
Host Department: BMW Center for German and European Studies
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BMW Center for German and European Studies
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Intercultural Center, Suite 501
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057-1022
Fax: (202) 687-8359
Email: tz174@georgetown.edu
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Host University: Emory University
Host Department: German Studies
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Emory University
Department of German Studies
304 Modern Languages Building
532 S. Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email: frank.voigt@emory.edu
