Professors
List of IPP Supervisors with their Research Focuses
Prof. Dr. Anna Amelina
Sociology with a focus on migration and transnational studies
- Research on transnational migration
- Intersectionality research
- Cultural Theories
- Transnational Studies
Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink
Sociology with a focus on industrial and organizational sociology
- Economy and sustainability
- Innovation as a social process
- Transdisciplinarity in sustainability research
- University as an organization
- Gender and work
- Gender and education
- Sociology as a profession
Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl
Political science with a focus on international institutions and peace processes
- International institutions, in particular the United Nations
- Peace and security research
- Theories of international relations
- Global governance / Privatization of world politics
- Norms in international relations
Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan
Junior professorship for political science with a focus on gender/postcolonial studies
- Transcultural Political Philosophy
- Postcolonial Studies
- Gender and Queer
- Globalization and Transnational Migration
Prof. Dr. Alexander Ebner
Social economics with a focus on the sociology of economics and political economy
- Entrepreneurship
- Cluster and innovation networks
- Regional economic development
- Market and state
- Governance
- History of socio-economic theory
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel
Political science and political sociology with a focus on state and politics in the Federal Republic of Germany in the European context
- Democracy research
- Participation research
- Urban and regional research
- Democratic innovations
- Governance
- Political actors
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rolf Haubl
Sociology and psychoanalytical social psychology
- Social-scientific emotion research
- Illness and society
- Consulting research, in particular the development, practical testing, and evaluation of psychoanalytical concepts for supervision, coaching, and organizational analysis and consulting
- Methodology and methods of psychoanalytical social research, in particular relationship dynamics in qualitative interviews, biographical analyses, as well as case reconstructions
Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick
Sociology with a focus on culture and migration
- Research on Transnational Migration
- Transformation of Public Spheres
- Cultural Theories
- Research on Racism and Ethnicity
- Ethnographical Methods
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke
Sociology with a focus on biotechnology, nature and society
- Social theory
- Sociological theory
- Political sociology
- Biopolitics
- Sociology of scientific knowledge and technology
- Sociology of the body
- Philosophy of science
Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz
Sociology with a focus on women's and gender studies
- Women's and gender studies
- Migration research
- Intersectionality research
- Racism and ethnicity research
- Qualitative research methods/biography research
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nölke
Political science with a focus on international relations and international political economy
- Transnational political economy of the regulation of corporate governance
- Boundaries of transnational private governance
- Multinational companies from countries outside the triad
- Accounting standards from a political science perspective
- Political economy of financialization capitalism
- National and international regulation of capital markets
- Deep integration in North-South relations
- Diversity of capitalism outside the OECD
- Transnational politics
- International relations and organizational research
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher
Sociology with a focus on social conflict and social transformation
- Social capital
- Sociology of religion
- Elections and election behavior
- Sociocultural transformation
- Political socialization
Prof. Dr. Uta Ruppert
Political science and political sociology with a focus on developing countries and gender studies
- Globalization/Transnationalization and gender
- Gender policy transition in the context of transformation
- Culture and development in Southeast Africa
Prof. Dr. Sandra Seubert
Political science with a focus an political theory
- Modern political theory, especially theory of democracy
- Citizenship/civil society
- Cosmopolitanism
- Theories of justice
- Critical theory
- Feminist theory
Dr. Alice Szczepanikova (postdoctoral fellow)
Sociology with a focus an gender and migration
- Migration and european asylum politics
- Gender and identity
- North Caucasus and the former Soviet Union
Prof. Dr. Ulla Wischermann
Sociology with a focus on women's and gender studies
- Media sociology
- Social movement research
- Theories of the public sphere
- Gender studies
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wolf
Political science with a focus on international relations and foreign policy
- Respect and status in international relations
- US foreign and security policy
- Great power relations
- Peace and conflict studies
Prof. Dr. Thomas Zittel
Political science with a focus on comparative political science
- Comparative government
- Empirical and normative theories of democracy
- Political representation
- Political participation
- Electronic democracy
- Political communication
