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anja.abendroth@uni-bielefeld.de

Anja-Kristin Abendroth is a Junior-Professor for technical and social change within the research unit social structure analysis and social inequalities. Her research interests are organizational inequality regimes, interdependencies of work and personal life and gender inequalities, as well as social inequalities in a societal comparison.

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mathias.albert@uni-bielefeld.de

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science. His research is in the field of the history, the sociology, and the future of world politics, in Youth Studies, as well as in Arctic Studies.

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Franz.Arlinghaus@uni-bielefeld.de

Franz-Josef Arlinghaus is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History. His current research fields (with a systemtheoretical approach) are Premodern Urban History, Identity of Towns, Integration of Groups into Towns, the "Individual" in the Premodern Period, Pathos as a mode of communication in the Modern and Premodern Period, History of Law, Media like "lettering" and "rituals/gestures" in the Middle Ages, Sacrality and Space in Royalism.

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ruth.ayass@uni-bielefeld.de

Ruth Ayaß is a professor of qualitative methods in empirical social research. Her current research interests and preferred areas of supervision are qualitative social research methods, especially conversation analysis, genre analysis, ethnography, text analysis and visual methods. Her main focus is on the analysis of social interaction in informal and institutional contexts. Further foci: the role of mass media and social media for everyday communication; interaction in public space; interpretative theories.

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Sonja.Blum@uni-bielefeld.de

Sonja Blum is Professor of Comparative Politics and Public Policy. Her research focuses on comparative public policy and social policy (in particular family policy, politics and gender), policy processes and policy design, policy narratives as well as the evidence-and-policy relationship.

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priska.daphi@uni-bielefeld.de

Priska Daphi is Professor of Conflict Sociology. Her research explores intra-societal conflicts in the context of globalization and migration with a focus on empirical studies of political participation, civil society, social movements and protest.

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lars.deile@uni-bielefeld.de

Lars Deile is Professor of Didactics and Theory of History. He deals with theoretical questions of historical learning and develops these further as the didactics and methodology of history teaching. His current focus is on questions of historical culture and the perception thereof.

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angelika.epple@uni-bielefeld.de

Angelika Epple is Professor of General History with special regard for the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research fields are History of Globalisaton, History of Histography, Theory of History, History of Food and History of Technology.
 

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elena.esposito@uni-bielefeld.de

Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology and its interdisciplinary networking (Soziologie und ihre interdisziplinäre Vernetzung). She works with the theory of social systems especially on issues related with the social management of time, including memory and forgetting, fashion and transience, probability calculus, fiction and the use the time in finance. Her current research focus on a sociology of algorithms, on the possibility and forms of forgetting on the web and on the proliferation of rankings and ratings for the management of information.

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thomas.faist@uni-bielefeld.de

Thomas Faist is Professor for the Sociology of Transnationalization. His research and areas of supervision are global migration, social inequalities and mobilities, the transnational social question, exit and voice in the context of environmental destructionclimate change, and citizenship.

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antje.fluechter@uni-bielefeld.de

Antje Flüchter is Professor of Early Modern History and speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre "Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing of the World". Her current research interests are transculturality/global history , with an emphasis on the European-Asian relationship, mission and piety history, era of denomination, pre-modern sate-formation, history of civilization concerning politics, theory of history and gender history.

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oliver.fluegel-martinsen@uni-bielefeld.de

Oliver Flügel-Martinsen is Professor of Political Theory and History of Political Thought. His main research fields are: Philosophy and Theory of Modernity, Philosophy and Theory of Social Sciences, Theories of the Political, Democratic Theory, Contemporary French Philosophy and Social Theory, and Post-Marxist Critical Social Theory.

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birte.foerster@uni-bielefeld.de

Birte Förster will be acting professor for 19th and 20th century history (chair Epple) from October 2023. Her current research interests are in the fields of the decolonisation of Africa, the global history of water energy production, the cultural history of the political, and media and gender history. She is also interested in fictional constructions of the past.

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heike.greschke@uni-bielefeld.de

Heike Greschke is Professor of Media Sociology. Her current research interests are media and migration, presence relations in digital infrastructures, vulnerability and qualitative methods of media research.

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frank.gruener@uni-bielefeld.de

Frank Grüner is Professor of Eastern European History at Bielefeld University. His research interests center on Russian and Soviet history, in particular on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism, the history of Stalinism as well as on the history of the Russian Empire from a global and entangled perspective. Current research focuses on the transcultural/transnational history of Manchuria and the Russian Far East in the age of imperialism.

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udo.hagedorn@uni-bielefeld.de

Udo Hagedorn is professor of social sciences education. Focus of his research is the design of an integrative approach of social science education, the effects of multiple, interacting demands from society, economy and private life on social science lessons as well as the epistemic construction of social science subject matter and professional, educational action.
 

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ann-cathrin.harders@uni-bielefeld.de

Ann-Cathrin Harders is junior professor of Ancient History. Her research interests are families and family structures in antiquity; historical anthropology and gender studies; the social history of the Roman Republic and the early Imperial era as well as the Hellenistic monarchy.
 

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michael.huber@uni-bielefeld.de

Michael Huber is professor of Sociology. His research interests and preferred areas of supervision are Sociology of Regulative Politics, of Organisation, of Risk and of Higher Education.

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alexandra.kaasch@uni-bielefeld.de

Alexandra Kaasch is professor in transnational social policy. Her research interests are in the field of comparative and global social policy and governance, and global health policy.

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olaf.kaltmeier@uni-bielefeld.de

Olaf Kaltmeier is professor of Transnational History of the Americas. His research interests are transnational history, Cultural Studies, development as well as history of the Americas in the 19th and 20th century.

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martina.kessel@uni-bielefeld.de

Martina Kessel is Professor of General History with a special focus on gender history. Her research interests include cultural history, political history and gender history since the 18th century, with a focus on German history, including work on temporality and emotions in the 19th century and the relationship between identity and violence in the 20th century. A current research focus is the history of masculinity in a global context since the 16th century.
 

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andre.kieserling@uni-bielefeld.de

André Kieserling is professor of General Sociology and Sociological Theory. His research focuses on Sociology of Knowledge, Social Diversity and Interaction.
 

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Martin.Koch@uni-bielefeld.de

Martin Koch is Professor in the field of international politics. His research interests lie in international relations, international political sociology, world society research and organizational sociology.

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Kornelia.Konczal@uni-bielefeld.de

Kornelia Kończal is Assistant Professor of Public History. Her teaching and research interests include the social and cultural history of Europe since the late 19th century, the history of social sciences and humanities as well as heritage and memory studies. 

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tomke.koenig@uni-bielefeld.de

Tomke König is Professor of Sociology. Her research focuses on gender, family, social inequality and elites.

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peter.kramper@uni-bielefeld.de

Peter Kramper is Professor of General History with special emphasis on economic history. His research interests are primarily in the corporate history of the 20th century, in the comparative economic and technological history of Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, and in the global history of industrialization and capitalism.
 

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martin.kroh@uni-bielefeld.de

Martin Kroh is Professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Faculty of Sociology. His current research interest and preferred supervision domain is social and political inequality, political socialization, prejudices and discrimination as well as longitudinal study and survey research.

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stefan.kuehl@uni-bielefeld.de

Stefan Kühl is Professor of Organization Sociology. His research interests are Society Theory, Sociology of Interaction, Industrial Sociology, Sociology of Work and Science.

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holger.kuhn@uni-bielefeld.de  

Holger Kuhn is junior professor of art history and visual culture. In his current research project, he investigates aspects of governmentalisation and environmentalisation in contemporary art, especially in film and video. Other research interests include 16th century painting, image and media theory, and art and ecology.

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simon.kuehne@uni-bielefeld.de  

Simon Kühne is Professor of Applied Social Data Science at the Faculty of Sociology. His current research interests and preferred supervision
domains are a) new data sources and methods in the social sciences, esp. social media, b) survey methodology and c) social inequality with a
focus in sexual and gender diversity, racism, and health inequalities

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diana.lengersdorf@uni-bielefeld.de

Diana Lengersdorf, Professor of Gender Studies and board member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZG). Research interests: masculinity studies, science & technology studies, work and organizational studies, and theories of practice.

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Martin.Lutz@uni-bielefeld.de

Martin Lutz is deputy professor for the history of modern societies at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology. His research is based on institutional theory approaches and currently focuses on three main topics in the 19th and 20th centuries: Society's use of energy, Family and asset protection in a long-term perspective, Religion in Germany in a global context.
 

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helga.lutz@uni-bielefeld.de

Helga Lutz is Professor for Art History and Historical Image Studies at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology. Her research interest lies in contemporary art (from the perspective of cultural techniques and Actor Network Theory), image-theoretical questions in relation to practises and operations, textile media as well as the relation of art and mimesis.

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ursula.mense@uni-bielefeld.de

Ursula Mense-Petermann is Professor of Labor and Economic Sociology. Her research interests lie at the intersection of labour, economics and globalization and relate in particular to cross-border labour markets and their transnational embedding. She has conducted studies on cross-border labor mobility of highly skilled (expatriate managers) and low-skilled workers in the German meat industry. From April 2024, she will head the DFG Research Training Group 2951 "Cross-border Labor Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions".

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antje.missbach@uni-bielefeld.de  

Antje Missbach is Professor for the Sociology of Migration and Mobility. Her current research interests include Refugee and Migration Studies, particularly migratory decision-making, irregular(ised) border transgressions and shifting migration and asylum policies in transit and host countries. Her geographic area of interest is the Asia-Pacific region, first and foremost Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia.

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christina.morina@uni-bielefeld.de

Christina Morina is Professor of General History with a special focus on contemporary history. She is concerned with the political cultural history of Germany since 1945, especially of the GDR and East Germany, and the social history of National Socialism in an European context. She also deals with questions of historical memory and politics of history in democratic, authoritarian and populist discourses as well as with the political history of ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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minh.nguyen@uni-bielefeld.de

Minh Nguyen is Professor of Social Anthropology. Her research focuses on work, care and welfare, migration and mobility. She has studied these issues in the context of political economic transformations in Vietnam, China and Southeast Asia.

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martin.petzke@uni-bielefeld.de

Martin Petzke is Professor for Historical Sociology. His research deals with the ways in which social-scientific expertise has shaped fields of practice since the 19th century.

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lisa.regazzoni@uni-bielefeld.de

Lisa Regazzoni is Professor of Historical Theory. Her current research interests lie in the epistemology of historical remains, the mediality of history and modes of representation of the past. In addition, she deals with the question of researching historical collectives and the constitutive role of skepticism and beliefs in historical research.

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carsten.reinhardt@uni-bielefeld.de

Carsten Reinhardt is Professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT). His current research fields are History of Science, History of Technology and Business History, Science Studies and Modern History.

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eleonora.rohland@uni-bielefeld.de

Eleonora Rohland is Professor for Entangled History in the Americas (1600-1850). Her current research interests are in the Spanish and French colonial history of North America and the Caribbean, in environmental and climate history, the history of knowledge, science and technology as well as in insurance history.

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andreas.ruether@uni-bielefeld.de

Andreas Rüther is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History. His current research fields are premodern migration history, new cultural history of politics, comparative regional history, studies on courts in the premodern era, church and town in the later middles ages, monasticsm and orders since the high middle ages.

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carsten.sauer@uni-bielefeld.de  

Carsten Sauer is professor for social structure analysis at the Faculty of Sociology. His current research interests and preferred areas of supervision are labor market sociology, social inequalities (especially organizational inequalities), empirical justice research, and survey experiments (factorial surveys, choice experiments).

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Hans-Walter.Schmuhl@uni-bielefeld.de

Hans-Walter Schmuhl is Professor of Contemporary History (19th/20th century). His current research fields are History of National Socialism, in particular science in the "Third Reich"; Urban History/Urbanisation Research; Genocide Research, Contemporary Church History (Deacrony).

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raimund.schulz@uni-bielefeld.de

Raimund Schulz is Professor of Ancient History. His current research areas are problems and opportunities of an ancient "world and global history" including Indian, Chinese and Central Asian cultures, ancient empire building in comparison as well as exploration and ethnography of antiquity with special consideration of late antique writers.

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holger.strassheim@uni-bielefeld.de

Holger Strassheim is Professor of Political Sociology. His work centers on public policy and governance, comparative policy analysis (with a focus on employment policy and welfare, consumer protection, food safety, mobility, energy, environmental and climate policy), organizations and networks and the role of time in politics. A substantive research area includes the interlinkages between science and politics in world society, the historical change of expertise and policy advice and the influence of economic discourses on social regulation.

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veronika.tacke@uni-bielefeld.de

Veronika Tacke is Professor of Organisational Sociology. Her preferred areas of supervision are Sociology of Economics, Employment, Labour, as well as globalisation of risk, network research and theory of society.
 

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andreas.vasilache@uni-bielefeld.de

Andreas Vasilache is Professor of European Studies in the Social Sciences. His current research interests include international relations (IR), European studies, IR theories and methods, international political theory (IPT), international security studies, border studies, relations between Europe and (South) East Asia as well as Central Asia and Europe-CIS relations.

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uwe.walter@uni-bielefeld.de

Uwe Walter is Professor of Ancient History. His current research projects are History of Greece in the Archaic and Classical Period, History and Culture of the Roman Republic, Ancient Historiography.
 

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tobias.werron@uni-bielefeld.de

Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory and General Sociology. His current research interests include sociology of competition, historical sociology, and globalization and world social research.

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heidemarie.winkel@uni-bielefeld.de

Heidemarie Winkel is Professor of Sociology . Her research interests lie in the field of gender sociology and the sociology of religion; In addition, she is interested in Arab societies and trans- and intercultural communication . Theoretically, she is connected to the interpretive paradigm. In empirical terms she is in accordance with qualitative methods.

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zick@uni-bielefeld.de

Andreas Zick is Professor for Socialization and Conflict Research at the Faculty of Education Science at Bielefeld University. He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG). His current research interests concentrate on group-focused enmity and processes of acculturation.

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bettina.zurstrassen@uni-bielefeld.de

Bettina Zurstrassen is Professor of Didactics of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Sociology. Her research focuses on socio-economic education, social science education at vocational colleges and the analysis of phenomena of social inequality in social science education.

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werner.abelshauser@uni-bielefeld.de

Werner Abelshauser is Professor emer. of Economic and Social History. The chair of General and Economic History is responsible for teaching the History of the Modern and Early Modern Age (14th-19th centuries) and the Postmodern Era (20th and 21st centuries). His research focuses primarily on Economic Developments of the late 19th century and on their consequences for the German and, more broadly, the European Economy.

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joerg.bergmann@uni-bielefeld.de

Jörg Bergmann is Professor emer. of Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research. His current research interests and preferred areas of supervision are Professional Interaction, Psychotherapeutic Interaction, Media and Interaction, Interaction in High-Risk Environments, technologically mediated Communication, Human-Robot-Interaction, Disaster and Emergency Communication and Global Micro-Structures.

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alfons.bora@uni-bielefeld.de

Alfons Bora is Professor of Sociology. His current research interests and areas of supervision focus on Sociology of Law, Technology Assessment, Sociology of Knowledge and Qualitative Methods.

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neithard.bulst@uni-bielefeld.de

Neithard Bulst is Professor emer. of Medieval and Early Modern History (1000-1600) with a focus on Social History, History of Law, Demography, Medical Condition and Society (especially Holy Roman Empire and France).

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martin.diewald@uni-bielefeld.de

Martin Diewald is Professor of Sociology and Social Structural Research at the Department of Sociology. His current research interests and preferred areas of supervision are Life Course Research, Social Networks and the Family, Social Inequalities, Job Careers and the Labour Market, as well as the Transformation of former Socialist Countries.

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gisela.diewald-kerkmann@uni-bielefeld.de

Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann is Professor of History with special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research objects and areas of supervision are History of National Socialism, History of Political Violence of the 19th and 20th centuries, Law History after 1945 and Historical Research on Terrorism.

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birgit.geissler@uni-bielefeld.de

Birgit Geissler is Professor of Social Sciences, especially Sociology of Work. Her research focuses on restructuring the relation of public and private as well as on gender perspectives on life course politics (biography) and planning.

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ingrid.holtey@uni-bielefeld.de

Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey ist Professorin der Allgemeinen Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zeitgeschichte. Ihre Hauptforschungsgebiete sind "Intellectual History", vergleichende Analyse der 68er-Bewegung in Europa und den USA, Literatur und Politik des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie Bertolt Brecht im geteilten Deutschland.

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heinz-gerhard.haupt@uni-bielefeld.de

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt is Professor of Social History and Political History of Modern Europe, Methodology of Comparative History. His current research projects are: History of Political Violence in 19th and 20th century-Europe, History of Consumption in 19th and 20th century Europe, History of Social Movements and Classes: The First of May in Europe after 1945, Comparative History of European Nationalism: Nation and Religion in 19th and 20th century.

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reinhold.hedtke@uni-bielefeld.de

Reinhold Hedtke is Professor emer. of Didactics of Social Science and Economic Sociology, Department of Sociology. Currently, his research interests are Theory of Social Science Education, civic and economic education in Europe and economical theory, especially Market Theory.

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klaus.japp@uni-bielefeld.de

Klaus Peter Japp is Professor emer. of Political Communication and Risk Sociology. His research interests are System Theory, risk and rationality in social movements and political organizations.

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volker.kruse@uni-bielefeld.de

Volker Kruse is Professor emer. of Theoretical Sociology, his research interest is the History of Sociology and Theory.

 

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lutz.leisering@uni-bielefeld.de

Lutz Leisering is Professor emer. of Social Policy. His current research interests are International and Comparative Social Policy, theory and history of the Welfare State, policy analysis, social problems and life course research. Prof. Leisering's preferred areas of supervision include global social policy, new Welfare States, especially in East Asia and China and European social policy, especially old-age pensions and social assistance.

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ulrich.meier@uni-bielefeld.de

Ulrich Meier is Professor emer. of Medieval History. His current research interests are Italian and German Urban History; Medival and Early Modern Political History / Historical Semantics; Political Iconography; Regional History of Estern Westphalia.

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stephan.merl@uni-bielefeld.de

Stephan Merl is Professor emer. of East European Studies. His current research fields are Sovietisation and Destalinisation in Eastern Europe; comparison of National Socialism and Stalinism ; History of Consumption in Eastern Europe; Political Communication in the Tsardom and in the Soviet Union; Agriculture in the process of industrialization of Russia and the Soviet Union; Bourgeoisie and Civil Society in Russia before the First World War.

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ursula.mueller@uni-bielefeld.de

Ursula Müller is Professor emer. of Social Scientific Research form a Gender Perspective. She is director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Woman and Gender Studies (IFF). Her research interests include theory and methodology of gender questions, gender and organizations (police, universities, leadership questions), women in society and at work. Other fields of interest are men and masculinity in international perspective, violence and new media in Gender Studies.

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Joanna.pfaff@uni-bielefeld.de

Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka is Professor of Social Anthropology. Her current research interests are Political Anthropology and Globalization. In these fields she particularly focuses on Ethnicity in South Asia, Processes of Integration in multireligious western Immigrant Societies, Democratization Processes in subnational contexts and Legal Anthropology (in particular: Human and Minority Rights). Cultural change and intercultural communication are among her further research interests.

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joachim.radkau@uni-bielefeld.de

Joachim Radkau is Professor emer. of History of Technology and Environmental History. His main fields of research are the History of Mentality and Max Weber.

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jost.reinecke@uni-bielefeld.de

Jost Reinecke is Professor of Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research. His research focuses on Rational-Choice Theories in Social Sciences, especially their theoretical and empirical significance, as well as methodology and applications of classification and structural equation modelling. Other fields of interest are research with Microsociological Theories (e.g. Theory of Planned Behavior), long-term development of youth criminality. He puts particular emphasis on cross-sectional and longitudinal research (e. g. multilevel and growth curve models, dynamic models in continuous time).

 

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heinrich.schaefer@uni-bielefeld.de

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer is Professor of Systematic Theology and Sociology of Religion. He is currently working on, and enjoys supervising, projects in theory development (Bourdieu); qualitative methods (Bourdieu); religion and social inequality; religion and violence; identity politics; Inter-American studies.
 

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peter.schuster@uni-bielefeld.de

Peter Schuster is professor of history in the late Middle Ages and early modern era. His research foci are on historical criminology, the semantics and practices of systems of social relations, the formation of dynasties among aristocracy and nobility, the image of the Middle Ages in the modern period and the staging of politics in the pre-modern era.

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andreas.suter@uni-bielefeld.de

Andreas Suter is Professor emer. of Early Modern History. His current research fields are the Study of Social and Political Movements, Corruption, History of Anthropology, Political Participation, Theory of Science of History.

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tilmann.sutter@uni-bielefeld.de

Tilmann Sutter is Professor of Media Sociology. Besides Media Sociology, his research focuses on Socialization Theories, Sociological Theories, Methodology and Sociology of Morality.

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willibald.steinmetz@uni-bielefeld.de

Willibald Steinmetz is Professor of Modern Political History at the Department of History. His current research interests are Modern and Contemporary Political History and also British History. His preferred areas of supervision are Historical Semantics and Discourse Analysis, Contemporary Political History, as well as Comparative Legal and Social History.

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klaus.weinhauer@uni-bielefeld.de

Klaus Weinhauer is professor for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Mainly employing comparative and transnational perspectives his research focuses on the history of the state, urban history, history of violence, crime, protest and social movements, on labour history and on the history of knowledge.

Prof. Dr. Mechtild Oechsle-Grauvogel passed away in 2018. Mechtild Oechsle-Grauvogel taught and researched at Bielefeld University for over 20 years, 15 of which at the Faculty of Sociology. Mechtild Oechsle was a professor of social sciences, career and labour orientation and gender studies. Her research interests and preferred fields of supervision included career orientation and life/time planning. Her main focus was on gender issues.

Rainer Schützeichel was Professor of Sociology and worked primarily in the fields of sociological theory, theory of science, historical sociology, sociology of religion, profession and economics.

Thomas Welskopp was a professor in the History of Modern Societies (18th-20th c.) department. His research interests were transnational corporate history, history of production, production history of the consumer sector. His preferred areas of supervision include comparative history of social movements in Germany and the USA, labour history, labour movement history, history of political culture. Furthermore, comparative and transnational history of political systems and mass media as well as theoretical questions of historical science, social theory and historiographic history.