As part of DIMAS, the Department of Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Area Studies, the University of Regensburg has appointed six professors with a wide range of regional and disciplinary expertise. The professors belong to four faculties at the UR:
- Prof. Dr Anne Brüske - Professorship for Spatial Dimensions of Cultural Processes (SLK)
- Prof Dr Astrid Ensslin - Professorship for Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces (SLK)
- Prof Dr Rike Kr?mer-Hoppe - Professorship for Transregional Norm Development (Law)
- Prof Dr Laura Lieber - Professorship for Transregional History of Religions (Catholic theology)
- Prof. Dr Timothy Nunan - Professorship for Transregional Cultures of Knowledge" (PKGG)
- Prof Dr Anna Steigemann - Professorship for Sociological Dimensions of Space (Spatial Research) (PKGG)
Three professorships were initially filled by deputy professors in October 2020, thereby expanding research and teaching already related to area studies.
Other members of DIMAS
In addition to the six professorships, there are other members of DIMAS. The chairs and professors come from the four faculties. According to the DIMAS regulations (external link, opens in a new window), any professor or chair from the four faculties may apply for membership. The following professors - together with the assistant professors and other staff - are members of the department in addition to the direct DIMAS professors.
- Prof Dr Ulf Brunnbauer (Chair of South East and East European History, PKGG and Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies)
- Prof Dr Klaus Buchenau (Chair for the History of Southeast and East Europe, PKGG)
- Prof. Dr Ger Duijzings (Chair of Social Anthropology, with a focus on Southeast and East Europe, PKGG)
- Prof Dr Alexander Graser (Chair of Public Law and Politics, in particular european and international law and comparative law, Law)
- Prof Dr Marcus Hahn (Chair of German Language and Literature, SLK)
- Prof Dr Guido Hausmann (Professor of southeast and east european history, PKGG and Head of the History Department at the Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies Regensburg)
- Prof. Dr Ralf Junkerjürgen (Professor of Romance Cultural Studies, SLK)
- Prof. Dr Manfred Kittel (Associate Professor at the Chair of European History - 19th and 20th Centuries, PKGG)
- Prof. Dr Sabine Koller (Chair of Slavic-Jewish Studies, SLK)
- Prof Dr Rainer Liedtke (Chair of European History - 19th and 20th Centuries, PKGG)
- Prof Dr Martin L?hnig (Chair of Private Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law, Law)
- associate Prof. Dr Daniela Neri-Ultsch (Associate Professor at the Chair of European History - 19th and 20th Centuries, PKGG)
- apl. Prof. Dr Hubert P?ppel (adjunct professor at the Chair of Romance Languages and Literature II, SLK and management 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 Languages and Literature II, SLK)
- associate Prof. Dr Natali Stegmann (Associate Professor (specialising in the modern history of East Central Europe) at the Chair of History of South-Eastern and Eastern Europe, PKGG)
- Prof. Dr Juliane Tomann (Junior Professor of Public History, PKGG)
- Prof. Dr Isabella von Treskow (Chair of French and Italian Literature and Cultural Studies, SLK)
- Deputy Professor Prof Dr Julia Faisst (Chair of American Studies, SLK)
- Deputy Professor Prof Dr Susanne Greilich (Chair of Romance Languages and Literature II, SLK)
