This section provides an overview of all former Senior Fellows hosted by the College.
Prof. Stephen Brown
University of Ottawa (Canada) | Political Science
Stephen Brown is a professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where he is also affiliated with the School of International Development and Global Studies. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of domestic and international politics. He has published on democratisation, political violence, peacebuilding and transitional justice/rule of law in Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda. He has conducted research on foreign aid in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mongolia, and Peru, as well as on global COVID-19 vaccine inequities. He is now primarily carrying out research on international LGBTQI+ rights. He is completing a research project on international actors’ efforts to defend the rights of sexual and gender minorities in the Global South. His latest project is on how people in some African countries, such as Botswana, Mauritius, and Kenya, use domestic courts to try to force their governments to decriminalise homosexuality. He has been a visiting scholar at universities and research institutes in Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
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Prof. Dennis Dijkzeul
Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) | Conflict and Organisation Research
E-mail: dennis.dijkzeul@rub.de
Prof. Sule Emmanuel Egya
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (Nigeria) | African Literature, Environmental Humanities
Sule Egya is professor of African Literature and Environmental Humanities at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria. His research interests include literature and environment, African migration writing, knowledge production in Africa, and decolonial discourse. His current research examines environmental imagination in African 20th century literature. His monographs include:
Sule Egya has co-edited “Studies in Scientific and Cultural Ecology” (SevHage, 2021) and “Orality, Textuality, Society: New Perspectives on Nigerian Literature and Culture” (SevHage, 2023). He also writes fiction and poetry under the pen-name E. E. Sule. He is the author of the novels “Sterile Sky” (winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region, 2013) and “Makwala” (ANA Prose Prize, 2019) and the poetry collection “What the Sea Told Me” (winner of the ANA Gabriel Okara Prize, 2009).
Prof. Patricia Plummer
University of Duisburg-Essen | English and Postcolonial Studies
E-mail: patricia.plummer@uni-due.de
Prof. Mila Ganeva
Miami University Ohio (USA) | German Studies, Film Studies
Mila Ganeva is Professor of German and affiliate member of the Film Studies programme at Miami University in Ohio. She is the author of Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 (Camden House, 2008) and Film and Fashion amidst the Ruins of Berlin: Between Nazism and Cold War, 1945-1953 (Camden House, 2018) as well as numerous articles on fashion history and German film. Her essay on fashion photographers in Berlin of the 1920s was included in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (July 2021-January 2022). Most recently she published about the costumes and set designs in the popular German TV-series “Babylon Berlin” and is completing an article “Dressing Babylon Berlin for a Global Audience: Extravaganza, Glamour, and Grit” forthcoming in 2024. She is currently writing a book-length study on “Cabaret and Film: Synergy and Competition in the Weimar Republic.”
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Prof. Gudrun König
TU Dortmund University | Cultural Anthropology of Textiles
Asst. Prof. Marta García Morcillo
Durham University (UK) | Ancient History
Marta García Morcillo is an Ancient Historian, currently Research Fellow at Durham University and UK Principal Investigator of the AHRC-DFG collaborative project “Twisted Transfers: Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Greece and Rome” (2020-24). Previously, she worked as Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at the Universities of Roehampton (London), Wales TSD, Leicester and Dresden; and was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Heidelberg and Potsdam. Her research revolves around the study of ancient economies, with a particular interest in Roman financial activities, economic mentality and motivation, and the relationship between markets and ideas of value. She also works on the reception of antiquity in modern visual cultures, with a special interest in cinema, advertising and printed media. Marta is cofounder of the international networks "Imagines: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts" and "Engendering Ancient Economies".
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Prof. Florian Freitag
University of Duisburg-Essen | American Studies
Prof. Mustafa Erdem Özgür
Dokuz Eylül University Izmir (Turkey) | Economics
M. Erdem Özgür is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir. Previously, he was employed by Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, where he had served as vice director of the Maritime Business School. He received his PhD degree from George Mason University in 2005, and his MSc and BSc degrees from Middle East Technical University. His research interests include economic history and history of economic thought with a specific focus on the 19th century. He has papers presented at various professional conferences on his research interests. He has published articles and book chapters as well as co-edited books on the economic history of and history of economic thought in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Europe, and the US. The courses he taught include history of economic thought, institutional economics, economic history, and principles of economics.
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https://debis.deu.edu.tr/akademik/index.php?cat=3&akod=20120252
Prof. Jakob Kapeller
University of Duisburg-Essen | Socio-Economics
E-mail: jakob.kapeller@uni-due.de
Prof. Manuel Souto-Otero
Cardiff University (UK) | Education Policy, Sociology
Manuel Souto-Otero is a Professor of Education Policy and Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University (UK), where he is Director of Research and Head of the Education Research Group. He has published widely on the link between education and work (in particular digitalisation, the future of work and its implications for skills development), social stratification and inequalities, and non-formal education. He has recently completed a project on “Digital Disruption and the Future of Work: reimagining education, skills and employ-ability” for Skills Futures Singapore, and has also undertaken a large number of research projects for international organisations (European Commission, European Parliament, Cedefop, UNESCO, OECD), national governments (Belgium, Spain, Estonia, UK), and think tanks and third sector organisations (including the European Youth Forum and the Institute for Public Policy Research). He is an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Associate Editor of the Journal Education and Work, and Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Education Policy.
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Prof. Birgit Apitzsch
Ruhr University Bochum | Sociology of Work, Economy, and Welfare
Prof. Małgorzata Sugiera
Jagiellonian University Cracow (Poland) | Performativity Studies
Małgorzata Sugiera is Professor and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. She was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, the American Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research concentrates on performativity theories, environmental and decolonial studies, particularly in the context of the history of science. She published twelve scholarly books in Polish, translates scholarly books and co-edited several books in English and German, most recently with Dorota Sajewska for “Crisis and Communitas: Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics” (Routledge 2022).
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Prof. Dorota Sajewska
Ruhr University Bochum | Theatre Studies
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Assoc. Prof. Christina Vagt
University of California Santa Barbara (USA) | European Media Studies, German Studies, Comparative Literature
Christina Vagt is Associate Professor of European Media Studies, German, and Comparative Literature at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research intersects media theory with European philosophy and the history of science and technology. Selected publications: Impossible-Possible Machines (communication +1, 2022), Action at A Distance (Minnesota, 2020); Design as Aesthetic Education: On the Politics and Aesthetics of Learning Environments (History of the Human Sciences, 2020), Geschickte Sprünge. Physik und Medium bei Martin Heidegger (Diaphanes, 2012).
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Prof. Florian Sprenger
Ruhr University Bochum | Media Studies, Virtual Humanities
E-mail: florian.sprenger@rub.de
Prof. Douglas Wegner
Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil) | Business Administration
Douglas Wegner is a professor of the Professional Master in Administration at Fundação Dom Cabral, a business school in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is currently co-leader of the track on “Interorganizational and Interpersonal Relations” at Anpad, the National Association of Graduate Programs and Research in Administration, and member of the research group Collab4Good, which focuses on grand challenges, collaborative governance, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial ecosystems, social innovation, and inter organisational cooperation. His current research interests include collaborative strategies and networks, network governance, and network orchestration. He also works as associate editor of Revista Base for the topics of Collaboration and Interorganisational Relations. Besides the academic activities, Douglas worked as a business consultant, forming and developing strategic networks in Brazil. Douglas Wegner holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011), Brazil. He was a visiting researcher at TU Dortmund University (2019) and the University of Sevilla (2016) and published various articles in peer reviewed journals.
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Prof. Jürgen Howaldt
TU Dortmund University, Social Research Centre Dortmund | Sociology, social innovation research
E-mail: juergen.howaldt@tu-dortmund.de
Prof. Peter Woelert
University of Melbourne (Australia) | Education
Peter Woelert is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Research) at the Faculty of Education of the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published on issues such as universities’ internal responses to national research funding settings, the politics of research evaluation, and the unintended effects of national policy reform on institutional diversity. His current programme of research is focused on exploring new forms of bureaucratisation within universities and their ramifications.
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https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/219058-peter-woelert
Prof. Uwe Wilkesmann
TU Dortmund University, Centre for Higher Education (zhb) | Organisation Studies and Management of Continuing Education
E-mail: uwe.wilkesmann@tu-dortmund.de