Faculty

Prof. Dr. Satyanarayana Adapa
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Visiting Professor of History
Research area:
Socio-economic history of modern India/South Asia. Indian Diaspora and cultural contacts with the West (19th and 20th century). Situating India, “the emerging Asian giant," in the context of globalization.
Dr. Jaromír Balcar
(Universität Bremen)

Assistant Professor of Modern European History
Research area:
Germany in the time of occupation (1945-1949), History of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949, History of Czechoslovakia 1918-1992, Social and Economic History of National Socialism and State Socialism, "Ostforscher" and "Ostforschung" in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic, The United States during the Civil War (1830-1880)
Prof. Dr. Marc Frey
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Professor of International History
Research area:
European Colonialism and Decolonization, International Politics of Southeast Asia, American Foreign Relations in the 20th Century, History of Development Policies and Development Cooperation, Civil Society in Comparative Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Delia González de Reufels
(Universität Bremen)

Professor of Latin American History
Research area:
Latin American History, History of Modern Mexico with special reference to the 19th century, History of the Cono Sur, Latin American Military History, History of Filibusterism, Migrations to and in Latin America in historical perspective, Latin American Gender History, Historic Demography anf Latin American Population History
  Prof. Dr. Doris Kaufmann
(Universität Bremen)

Professor of Modern European History
Research area:
History of science and of the humanities as cultural history; history of otherness and deviance; currently working on "primitive" art and concepts of culture
  
Prof. Dr. Hans G. Kippenberg
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Professor of Comparative Religious Studies
Research area:
History and sociology of European Paganism, Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Islam in the Near East and Europe. The Rise of comparative religion in the 19th and 20th century. Max Weber’s sociology of religion. The public status of religious communities in European history. Contemporary religious violence.
Maike Lehmann, M.A.
(Universität Bremen)

Research Associate in Russian History
Research area:
History of the Soviet Union, Transnational Networks of Dissidents, Everyday Life and Social Imprint in the Dissidence, Nationalism and Socialism in the Soviet Union since 1945, "Völkerfreundschaft" and "Internationalism", Soviet Periphery in Post-Socialism, Recollection and Memory in Post-Socialism
  Alexandra Oberländer, M.A.
(Universität Bremen)

Research Associate in Russian History
Research area:
History of Late Imperial Russia, History of the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union, Gender History
Prof. Dr. Susanne Schattenberg
(Universität Bremen)

Professor of Contemporary History and Culture of Eastern Europe
Research area:
The Late Soviet Union, Party Leaders Chruscev and Breznev, Dissent and Consensus, Cultural History of the Soviet Diplomacy, Homo Sovieticus between Acclamation and Nonconformity
Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Professor of African and Development Studies
Research area:
Contemporary African History and Politics; Africa and Globalization; Development in Africa, in particular Ethopia and Ghana
      Prof. Dr. Welf Werner
(Jacobs University Bremen)

Professor of Economic History
Research area:
International Trade, International Monetary Economics, International Organizations, Economic History
           
       
Prof. Dr. Corinna Unger

(Jacobs University Bremen)
Professor of Modern European History
Research area:
Modern European history; Contemporary international and global history; History of modernization, development, and land reform; History of knowledge and science, esp. demography