Potential Supervisors (Phase 2)

This page provides an overview of the Principal Investigators (PIs) and Research Group Leaders (RGLs) who will be able to supervise doctoral theses at the BCDSS during Phase 2 (2026–2032).

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Prof. Dr. Jan H. Bemmann

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Project: "Pastoral Nomads, Agricultural Products, and China: A Long-term Inbuilt SAD or the Wirkmacht of the Memory Cultures of the Other?"
© Jan Bemmann
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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter

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Project: "Competing Legacies? Remembering Enslavement and Colonization in the Atlantic World"
© Julia Binter
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Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann

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Project: "SADs: A Global History since the Fifteenth Century"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Lewis Doney

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Project: "Beyond a Binary of Devils and Deities on the Road: SADs in Tibetan Travelogues"
© Barbara Frommann
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Dr. Benjamin Etzold

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Project: (tba)
© Benjamin Etzold
Avatar Grossmann

Prof. Dr. Kristina Grossmann

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Project: "Reconfigurations of SAD in Contemporary Resource Extraction in Southeast Asia"
© Kristina Grossmann
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Nikolai Grube

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Project: "Belonging and SAD in Classic Maya Religious Practice"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Gymnich

Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich

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Project: "Reflections on SAD in Contemporary Fiction for Children and Young Adults"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Hahn

Prof. Dr. Judith Hahn

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Project: "Coercive Law: Submission and Resistance to Canon Law in Local Roman Catholic Churches"
© Antje Kern
Avatar Hegewald

Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald

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Project: "SADs Expressed in the Styles of Religious and Government Buildings in South Asia and the Diaspora"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Julia Hillner

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Project: "SAD, Gender and Criminality in Late Antiquity (c. 200–600)"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Jaimes Betancourt

Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt

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Project: "Heritage and SAD: Indigenous Strategies for Resilience in the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia"
© IAE
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Jarzebowski

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Project: "Torture and Testimony"
© Claudia Jarzebowski
Avatar Löhr

Prof. Dr. Hermut Löhr

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Project: "Charisma and SAD in Ancient Judaism and Emerging Christianity"
© Friederike Nordholt
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Prof. Dr. Ludwig D. Morenz

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Project: "'Pharaonic' Internal Colonization in the Fourth Millennium"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Birgit Münch

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Project: "Sex and the Colony: Mapping SADs and Prostitution (1600–1878) in European Metropolises and the Colonies"
© Birgit Münch
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Prof. Dr. Karin Peters

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Project: "Textual Production and Material Circulation of the European Myth of the 'Feeling Subject' in Latin America"
© Karin Peters
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Jun-Prof. Dr. Magdalena Pfalzgraf

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Project: "Anglophone African Literature’s Economies of Mobility: SAD and Countermobility in Selected Texts 1789–2020"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Martin Schermaier

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Project: "The Legal Framing of SAD: Examples from Late Medieval and Modern Jurisdictions"
© Barbara Frommann
Avatar Schipper

Prof. Dr. Lisa Schipper

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Project: "Path Dependency: Unpacking the Colonial Roots of SADs and Vulnerability to Climate Change"
© Friederike Pauk/GIUB
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Prof. Dr. Christian Schwermann

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Project: "Metaphors of SAD in Chinese Economic and Political Thought"
© Barbara Frommann
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Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa

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Project: (tba)
© Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa
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Prof. Dr. Bethany J. Walker

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Project: "Tied to the Land? Coercive Labor and Resource Management in Late Medieval and Ottoman Syria"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller

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Project: "Post-SAD Remedies: What are Hermeneutics of the Restitution of Cultural Property"
© Matthias Weller
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Prof. Dr. Pia Wiegmink

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Project: "Nineteenth-Century Protocols of SAD in and beyond the United States"
© ‎Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Witzenrath

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Project: "The Slave Trade in the Russian Empire"
© Barbara Frommann
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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zöllner

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Project: "Patterns of Resistance and Agency in SADs in Pre-modern and Modern Korea and Japan"
© Reinhard Zöllner