Gender Studies; Reception in the Middle Age; Mysticism; Religion and Literature in the European Middle Age and in the early Modern Age im europäischen Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit; Aesthetics of Religion.
Macrosociology; Historical-comparative sociology and world system analysis; Inequality theories; Post-colonialism; Gender sociology; Theories of social change; violence research
Political sociology; Political economy; Environmental sociology; Social inequalities; Social Theory; Social Movements; Latin American Studies; Brazilian Studies; Gender Studies; Comparative Sociology; Food and Commodity Studies
Global History; Police and Statehood; Portuguese Reign (Early Modern Age), Techniques of Power; History of technology; History of the computer; Brazil; Portuguese Reign (Early Modern Age); Southern Cone
South-South Intercultural and Intellectual History; Literary and Cultural Relations between India and Latin America; Transcultural Memoria-Discourses and Gender; Contemporary Colombian Female Authors; Memoria-Discourses and Literary Representations, with focus on the Second World War and the Holocaust; COntempprray Colombian Literature; Literatures and Cultures in the Transnational Space of the Amazon; Roberto Bolaño/ Ernst Jünger
Migration; Media; Transnational communities and identity politics; Media and Visual Anthropology; Mexico and the transnational space of Mexico/USA; Mesoamerica and the Gran Chichimeca; Cuba and the transnational space of Cuba/USA; the Spanish-speaking and anglophone Caribbean; Peruvian Amazonia
