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
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary European History, Modern Germany, Modern Italy, History of Fascism, History of Terrorism, History of Humanitarianism, Film History
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (current); Hannah Arendt DAAD Visiting Chair at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) in Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (since 2019); DAAD Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill (2014-2018); VW Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University St. Louis (2013-2014)
Recent Publications: Latest Books: Die Geschichte des Terrorismus. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. UTB Verlag, 2022. Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press 2021; Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Of Hobbits and Tigers.” Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in Italy Since the Mid-1970s, in: J. Dafinger / M. Florin (eds), A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism. Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 175-196. The Rise of the Right: Terrorism in the U.S. and Europe, in T. Hof / K. Larres (eds) Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations: Threats and Challenges, hrsg. von London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 43-74. Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region (1922-1954), in R. Hansen / A. Saupe / A. Wirsching / D. Yang (eds), Historical Authenticity and Victimhood in Twentieth-Century History and Commemorative Culture. The Construction of Victim Identities in International Comparison, Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press 2021, pp. 246-270. Widerwillige Retter? Die Judenpolitik des italienischen Außenministeriums unter Galeazzo Ciano von 1936 bis 1943, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 68, 2 (2020): 181-216. From Extremism to Terrorism: The Far Right in Italy and West Germany, Contemporary European History 27, 3 (2018): 412-431.
Host University: University of Toronto
Host Department: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Department of History
Contact:
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
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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
Research Interests: History and Theory of Autobiography, Media of Mourning, Aesthetics of Play, Intellectual History of Western Europe in the 20th Century, European Maoism
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Professor at the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World, Université de Montréal (current, since 2022); Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute of German Philology, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2015-2022); Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate at the International Research Training Group ‘Interart’, Freie Universität Berlin (2007-2015).
Recent Publications: Latest Book: Sich selbst aufs Spiel setzen. Spiel als Technik und Medium von Subjektivierung, Munich: Fink, 2016 (coll. vol. ed. together with Christian Moser). Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Self-Reflexive Maoism? Alberto Moravia’s pre-’68 Critique of the Consumer Society,” in: Álvaro J Vidal et. al. (ed.), Other ’68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68’, Bern: Peter Lang, 2023 (forthcoming); “Mehrdeutigkeit – Zur Stellung der Philologie bei Szondi und Barthes“, in: Eurostudia 14, 2023 (forthcoming); “Interferenzen von Alltagssoziologie, Performance und Literatur um 1960. Lefebvre, Debord, Perec,“ in: Alltag! Literaturgeschichte eines Theoriereservoirs seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Vanessa Briese et. al., Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2023, pp. 175-203; the entries “Referentiality,” roland BARTHES par roland barthes,” and “Michel Leiris, La Règle du jeu,” in: Autobiography/Autofiction. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, 3 Vols., ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2019, Vol. 1, pp. 384-389 and Vol. 3, pp. 1878-1891, pp. 1806-1821.
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
Research Interests: European and German history, European integration, Euro-Mediterranean relations, democratization, Middle East and North Africa
Recent Experience: DAAD Seconded Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada (current); Academic Dean, Institute for the International Education of Students, Freiburg, Germany (2022); Senior Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany (2019-2021); Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2017-2019); DAAD Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt (2013-2017).
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Edited volumes:
2023: (with Michelle Pace, Roskilde University) Knowledge Production in Higher Education: Between Europe and the Middle East. Manchester University Press.
2022: (with Lena-Maria Möller, University of Münster, and Zeina Hobaika, Université Saint Joseph Beirut) The MENA region & COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Future Prospects. London: Routledge.
Peer-reviewed articles:
2023: Problem-Panorama Nahost, Internationale Politik, March/April, 25-29 (in German).
2021: European Support for Arab Parliaments – A Successful Way to Democracy?, Middle East Law and Governance, 13(3): 363-385, https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13031232.
2021: (with Chahd Bahri, Université de Sousse) A Struggle for Institutionalization: The Tunisian ‘Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple’ and the dominance of consensus-oriented politics, Middle East Law and Governance, 13(3): 272-293, https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13031234.
2020: Fanning Fears, winning Praise: Egypt’s Smart Play on Europe’s Apprehension of more Undocumented Immigration, Mediterranean Politics, 27(2): 170-191, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1758450.
2020: The “Chicken and Egg” Problem of Relevance: Political Parties and Parliaments in North Africa, The Journal of North African Studies, 25(6): 865-880, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2019.1644923.
Book chapters:
2023: (with Bassant Hassib, British University in Egypt) Challenges to a transformative education: “EUrientalism” at Egyptian universities, in Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel (eds) Knowledge Production in Higher Education: Between Europe and the Middle East. Manchester University Press, 157-176.
2022: …but tie your Camel! Islam and Democracy, in Ralf Wüstenberg, Zeina Barakat and Thies Münchow (eds.) Islam and Democracy: Law, Gender and the West, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 51-64.
2001: The Fingers of the “Invisible Hand”: Egypt’s Government Institutions, in: Robert Springborg, Sarah Smierciak, Amr Adly, Naomi Sakr et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Egypt, London: Routledge, 107-119.
2000: Pawns in the Army’s Hands: Political Parties in Military-Dominated Regimes, in: Francesco Cavatorta, Valeria Resta and Lise Storm (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Routledge, 125-136.
2019: The Impact of Brexit on the European Parliament: The Role of British MEPs in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs, in Christiansen, Thomas / Fromage, Diane (eds.) Brexit and Democracy: The Role of Parliaments in the UK and the European Union, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 263-291.
Host University: University of Ottawa
Host Department: School of Political Studies and Faculty of Social Sciences
Contact:
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
120 Université (FSS)
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada
Tel.: (613) 562-1718
Email: jvolkel@uottawa.ca
Research Interests: U.S.-American and Transatlantic History; 19th and 20th Century; History of Immigration, Ethnicity, Religion, Racism, Knowledge.
Recent Experience: DAAD Associate Professor at the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin (current); Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Muenster (2016-2022); Visiting Fellow at the Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016).
Recent Publications: Participatory Knowledge, History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society 1 (2022) [guest editor with Charlotte A. Lerg & Johan Östling]; The Continuity of Change? New Perspectives on U.S. Reform Movements, Amerikastudien / American Studies 66/4 (2021) [guest editor with Charlotte A. Lerg]; ‘Where Do We Go from Here?’ Recent and Future (German) Contributions to the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement, Contemporary Church History 33/1 (2020): 21-36.
Host University: University of Texas at Austin
Host Department: Department of Germanic Studies
Contact:
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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Research Interests: Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Political History, History of Democracy and Its Discontents, Modern Conservatism and the Far-Right, International Cooperation in the Twentieth Century, Global Public Health.
Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Professor at the Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University (current); Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Freiburg University (2014-2020); Volkswagen-Foundation Postdoc-Fellow at Georgetown University (2018-2019).
Recent Publications: Latest Books: Welt ohne Krankheit. Geschichte der Internationalen Gesundheitspolitik. Göttingen: Wallstein 2017. With Jörg Später (eds.), Lebensläufe im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019; Selected Articles, Book Chapters, and Public-Facing Work: “Reflections on the Challenges of Writing a (Pre-)History of the ‘Polarized’ Present.” Modern American History, 2 (2019): 403-408. “Das Zeitalter der Pandemien: Die internationale Gemeinschaft und der Kampf gegen Seuchen – von der Cholera bis Covid-19.” Merkur, 74, 854 (2020): 32-43. A Column On the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy in a Transatlantic Perspective Appears Regularly in The Guardian.
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
Research Interests: Literary Theory, Intellectual History, Relationship between History of Science and Social History, Public Memory and History
Recent Experience: Assistant Professor at the Institut für Germanistik, Universität Osnabrück (2016-2017).
Recent publications: Co-edited books: Nachkriegsliteratur als öffentliche Erinnerung. Deutsche Vergangenheit im europäischen Kontext. Co-edited with Helmut Peitsch, Konstantin Baehrens, Ira Dietrich, Christian Ernst, Christoph Kapp, Jacob Panzner, Ulrike Schneider. Berlin,Boston: de Gruyter 2018. Material und Begriff. Arbeitsweise und theoretische Beziehungen Walter Benjamins. Reihe Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften. Co-edited with Nicos Tzanakis Papadakis, Jan Loheit & Konstantin Baehrens. Hamburg: Argument-Verlag 2019. Latest Articles: “Walter Benjamin, Antonio Gramsci and the Problem of Elitist Traditions.” International Gramsci Journal 3.4 (2020): pp. 59-82. “Die Problemgeschichte wird tatsächlich zur Geschichte der Probleme. ‘Geschichtliche Totalität’ und ‘Augenblick’ bei Walter Benjamin und Georg Lukács.” Co-authored with Konstantin Baehrens. Material und Begriff. Arbeitsweise und theoretische Beziehungen Walter Benjamins, eds. Frank Voigt, Nicos Tzanakis Papadakis, Jan Loheit & Konstantin Baehrens. Hamburg: Argument-Verlag, 2019. 193-242. “Bilder, Sprache – Töne, Notenschrift. Maurice Halbwachs’ Aufsatz ‘Das kollektive Gedächtnis bei den Musikern’ im Kontext seines Werks.” Nachkriegsliteratur als öffentliche Erinnerung. Deutsche Vergangenheit im europäischen Kontext. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. 17-35. “’…links vom Möglichen überhaupt’. Walter Benjamin und die Debatte um Karl Mannheims ‘Ideologie und Utopie.’” Judentum und Arbeiterbewegung im 20. Jahrhundert. Streben nach Emanzipation, eds. Markus Börner, Anja Jungfer & Jacob Stürmann. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. 217-238.
Host University: Emory University
Host Department: German Studies
Contact:
Emory University
Department of German Studies
304 Modern Languages Building
532 S. Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
Email: frank.voigt@emory.edu
