Foreign Policy in China; with focus on German-Chinese Relations as well as Relations between China and Latin American Countries; Policy, Law and Society in the People's Republic of China; Sociology of law questions about the People's Republic of China; Stability in China; Civil Society and Social Innovation in China.
Historical diversity research, especially gender and sexual history; Shoah and historical learning; Empirical historical culture research; Theory Debates in History Didactics (Diversity and Intersectionality Studies, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Cultural Theory)
Jewish History and Culture in East-Central and Eastern Europe; Nationbuilding, Nationalism and Ethnicity in East-Central and Eastern Europe; Polish History and Culture; Local History of East-Central and Eastern Europe; Gender Studies and Gender History in Eastern Europe.
Dynamics and entanglements in the history of religions in Asia, Europe and America; interrelations between religion and literature; history of the religion and culture of the Greco-Roman Antiquity and its continuing influence; modern and contemporary cultural transformations of Buddhism; Literature theory; Cultural Theory; Religion Theory; fictions and constructed revitalization of ancient religions.
Sex Tourism; Overlap of Exotisation and Sexualisation/ Intersectionality; History of the Women's Movement with special focus on the Relation with the "Third World"; Gender relations after '68; Masculinities' Crisis; Sexual Revolution; Tourism.
subjectivity, embodiment, and feminist critique; modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and the Global South; museum studies, museography of Islamic art, and the impact of coloniality and Eurocentrism on museums; history of colonial photography; history of archaeology in the Middle East; European painting and art practices in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; Islamic art historiography intellectual history and historiography of the Islamic world; discourses of the image, mimesis, music, and painting in Islamic cultures Platonic thought and Platonism; secularism and religion in art and art history with emphasis on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and other historic regions of Islamic hegemony; critical and postcolonial theories of heritage, preservation, and decoloniality; writing and rhetorical practices
