International Diversity Guest Professorships
To strengthen diverse, inclusive research and to promote the expansion of international networks, the University of Bamberg has initiated a funding program for international guest professorships. During their one-month research and teaching stays at the University of Bamberg, the visiting professors collaborate with Bamberg colleagues to develop diversity-related research projects and present them to the public in a series of lectures. Additionally, the international guests contribute to teaching and advise early-career scholars from Bamberg.
The latest call for proposals is available here(185.2 KB); the application period for 2023 is closed.
2023 Diversity Guest Professors and their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars
Dr. Guillermo Aguirre Martínez - Romance Studies and Translation, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Research topic: The Spanish Poet Manuel Álvarez Ortega. From Inner Exile during Dictatorship to the Margins of the Literary Industry in Times of Democracy - with Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Hispanic Studies)
Dr. Noran Amin - English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt
Research topic: Who Am I? A Cultural Exploration of the Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the Self across Media - with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)
Prof. Fiona Ellis - Philosophy, University of Roehampton, UK
Research topic: Unity of Nature and Diversity of Spirit - with J.-Prof. Dr. Silvia Jonas (Philosophy)
Dr. Kaye Mitchell - English/American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK
Research topic: Writing Shame: Negative Affect at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Disability in Anglophone Literature and Autobiographical Life Storying - with Prof. Dr. Katrin Röder (English Literature)
Dr. Elisabeth Punzi - Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Research topic: Autobiographical Narratives and Life Storying at the Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, Disability and Mental Distress - with Prof. Dr. Katrin Röder (English Literature)
Prof. Dr. Trinidad Rico - Heritage Conservation, University of Southern California, USA
Research topic: Diversity and Cultural Heritage. Methods, Loci, Practices. - with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vinken (Heritage Conservation)
Dr. Wouter Vleugels - Management, Deakin University, Australia
Research topic: The Dark Side of Person-Organisation Fit - with Prof. Dr. Maike Andresen (Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour)
International Diversity Guest Professorships 2022
2022 Diversity Guest Professors and their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars
Prof. Dr. Antonella Ghersetti
Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Arabic Language and Literature
Research topic: Discourses of Alterity in the Classical Arabic adab Tradition with Special Reference to Language Ideology with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)
Prof. Dr. Don E. Walicek
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Linguistics
Research topic: Diversification of the International Corpus of English with Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug (English Linguistics)
Prof. Dr. David D. Kim
University of California, LA, USA
European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Research topic: Hannah Arendt - Exile and Diversity with Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx (Modern German Literary Studies)
Prof. Daniel Mayerhoffer
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Computational Social Science
Research topic: Modelling intra- and inter-generational network effects on life courses of marginalised groups mediated by value change in society with Prof. Dr. Johannes Marx (Political Theory)
Prof. Dr. Nancy Kendall
University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
Educational Policy Studies
Research topic: Gender Issues in International Education Research with Dr. Susanne Ress (General Pedagogy)
Dr. Mervi Kaukko
Tampere University, Finland
Education
Research topic: Expertise in Innovative Research with Refugee Children and Youth with Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug (General Pedagogy)
Dr. Yariv Feniger
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Education
Research topic: From Research to Education Policy in Israel with Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler (Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course)
Dr. Laura Swift
Open University, UK
Classical Studies
Research topic: Dramatic Discourses on Diversity in the Bacchae of Euripides with Prof. Dr. Sabine Vogt (Classical Philology with a focus on Greek Studies)
Prof. Dr. Dr. Dion A. Forster
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology
Research topic: Social Coherence and Mechanisms of Othering during the Corona Pandemic in South Africa and Germany with Prof. Dr. Thomas Wabel (Systematic Theology)
International Diversity Guest Professorships 2021
2021 Diversity Guest Professors and their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars
Dr. Anna Nedoluzhko
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Formal and Applied Linguistics
Research topic: Modeling Language Learner Diversity with Prof. Dr. Sandra Birzer (Slavic Linguistics)
Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi
University of Kent, England
Heritage Studies
Research topic: Diversity, Gender, Women, and Heritage with Prof. Dr. Mona Hess (Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation)
Pravdoliub Ivanov, PhD
National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
Psychology of Art, Art Education, and General Education
Research topic: Collective Aesthetic Situations in Theory and Practice with Dr. Notburga Karl (Didactics of Fine Arts)
Dr. Ella Peltonen
University of Oulu, Finland
Ubiquitous Computing
Research topic: Encouraging Young Female Engineers by Citizen Science and Crowd Sensing for Smart Cities with Prof. Dr. Daniela Nicklas (Mobile Systems)
Dr hab. Maria Nowak
University of Warsaw, Poland
Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity
Research topic: Diversity in Roman Law with Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Peter Riedlberger (Late Antique History and Culture)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Yao Cobbinah
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Linguistics
Research topic: West-African Heritage in Colonial Brazil: Language, Culture, and Resistance in Minas Gerais with Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Romance Literary Studies / Hispanic Literatures)