German Studies Dozenten

DAAD professors are German academics who teach at North American universities for up to five years in a wide variety of fields such as political science, history, anthropology and philosophy. Below you will find the list of current DAAD professors who, in addition to their academic work, are also available to speak about DAAD and its programs.

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

Contact:
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

Contact:
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

Contact:
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

Contact:
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

Contact:
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).

Recent publications:
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

Contact:
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

Contact:
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

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