Professors

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DIMAS Professorships

As part of DIMAS, the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies, the University of Regensburg has appointed six professors with a broad range of regional and disciplinary expertise. The professors are based in four faculties of the University of Regensburg. Click on their links to find out more about their work and the staff working with them.

• Prof. Dr. Anne Brüske - Professor for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes - Faculty SLK
• Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin - Professor for Digital Cultures and Communication
• Prof. Dr. Rike Krämer-Hoppe - Professor for Transnational Norm Development - Law Faculty
• Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan - Professor for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge - Faculty PKGG
• Prof. Dr. Anna Steigemann - Professor for Sociological Dimensions of Space- Faculty PKGG
• Prof. Dr. Laura Lieber will join UR as professor of Transregional history of religions in May 2024 - Faculty of Catholic Theology.

Three positions were initially held by acting professors (Vertretungsprofessuren) on from October 2020 to strengthen and expand area studies-related research and teaching.

Further members of DIMAS

Beyond the six direct DIMAS Professorships, there are further members of DIMAS. The professors and chairs are members are members of the four faculties involved in DIMAS. According to the DIMAS statute, any professors (or chairs) from the faculties are entitled to apply for membership of the Department. In addition to the six direct members of DIMAS, the following professors of the University of Regensburg are members of DIMAS, together with their academic and non-academic staff members.

• Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer (Chair of Southeast and East European History, PKGG und Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchenau (Chair of Southeast and East European History, PKGG)
• Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings (Professor of Social Anthropology (with focus on Southeastern and Eastern Europe), PKGG)
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Graser (Chair of Public Law and Policy, esp. European, International, and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law)
• Prof. Dr. Marcus Hahn (Chair of German Philology, SLK)
• Prof. Dr. Guido Hausmann (Professor of the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, PKGG and Head of the History Section at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Junkerjürgen (Professor of Romance Cultural Studies, SLK)
• apl. Prof. Dr. Manfred Kittel (associate professor at the Chair of European History -19th and 20th centuries, PKGG)
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller (Professor of Slavi-Jewish Studies, SLK)
• Prof. Dr. Rainer Liedtke (Chair of European History -19th and 20th centuries, PKGG)
• Prof. Dr. Martin Löhnig (Chair of Civil Law, Europeana and German Legal History and Church Law, Faculty of Law)
• apl. Prof. Dr. Daniela Neri-Ultsch (associate professor at the Chair of European History -19th and 20th centuries, PKGG)
• apl. Prof. Dr. Hubert Pöppel (associate professor at the Chair of Romance Philology II, SLK and Manager of Centro de Estudios Hispánicos)
• Prof. Dr. Ursula Regener (Chair of Modern German Literature I, SLK)
• apl. Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schmelzer (associate professor at the Chair of Romance Philology II, SLK)
• apl. Prof. Dr. Natali Stegmann (associate professor at the Chair of Southeast and East European History)
• Prof. Dr. Juliane Tomann (Junior Professor for Public History, PKGG)
• Prof. Dr. Isabella von Treskow (Chair of French and Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, SLK)
• Acting Professor Prof. Dr. Julia Faisst (Chair of American Studies, SLK) -
• Acting Professor Prof. Dr. Susanne Greilich (Chair of Romance Philology II, SLK)