Prof. Andrea D. Buehrmann

Prof. Andrea D. Buehrmann

After studying sociology, philosophy and political science, Andrea D. Bührmann obtained her doctorate from the University of Münster in 1995. She trained as a personnel officer before becoming a research associate at the Chair of Sociology at the University of...
Prof. Anke Hilbrenner

Prof. Anke Hilbrenner

Anke Hilbrenner is professor for East European History at the University of Göttingen. She studied in Bonn and Bochum, and has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Bremen and Munich. Her research interest is the Imperial history of the Russian and Soviet Empires,...
Prof. Matthias Freise

Prof. Matthias Freise

Born in Hannover in 1957, Matthias Freise completed a M.A. in Slavic Studies (Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian) and philosophy (main interests: Kant, Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger) at the University of Hamburg in 1982. He then went on to complete a PhD on...
Prof. Peter van der Veer

Prof. Peter van der Veer

Peter van der Veer is a Director at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), where he heads the Department of Religious Diversity. He works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe. He has taught Anthropology at the Free...
Dr. Katja Föllmer

Dr. Katja Föllmer

Dr. Föllmer’s research interest is the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century Iran. She focuses on the images and discourses of the pre-Islamic past, the perceptions of and dealings with the ancient non-Islamic religious heritage, and Iran’s...