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 Krämer-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 Sabine Koller (Chair of Slavic-Jewish Studies, SLK)
- Prof Dr Rainer Liedtke (Chair of European History - 19th and 20th Centuries, PKGG)
- Prof Dr Martin Löhnig (Chair of Private Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law, Law)
- Prof Dr Ursula Regener (Chair of Modern German Literature I, SLK)
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Schuchardt (Professorship for Spanish and French Cultural and Literary Studies)
- 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)
