Scientific Advisory Council
Konrad H. Jarausch
Konrad H. Jarausch was born in 1941 in Magdeburg, Germany. He studied history and earned his Ph.D. in German history at the University of Wisconsin in 1969. He is Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
He was also Co-founder and Co-director of the Duke Center for European Studies. From 1998 until 2006 he was Co-director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam. Jarausch also spent several semesters as a visiting professor at a number of American and European universities. He was President of the German Studies Association and the Conference Group for Central European History. In addition, he is a member of the executive board of a wide range of different research facilities such as the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, the FRIAS in Freiburg and the Hanna Arendt Institute in Dresden. He is advisor to several scholarly journals. His research focus lies primarily on contemporary German history as well as in European memory cultures. He is currently working on “Taming Modernity: Europe in the Twentieth Century”.
http://history.unc.edu/faculty/jarausch.html
Heidemarie Kemnitz
Heidemarie Kemnitz studied mathematics and physics from 1973 until 1977, before she began work as a teacher. She was awarded her PhD in history of education from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1984 and she was awarded the venia legendi in education by the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt-University in 1997. Since 2003 she has been Professor of Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Her research focus lies on the theory and history of the teaching profession, school and school architecture of the 19th and 20th century as well as on the development and construction of pedagogical areas.
http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/schulpaedagogik/mitarbeiter/kemnitz#vita
Frank-Olaf Radtke
Frank-Olaf Radtke was born in 1945. After completing his studies in sociology, psychology and economics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and the Free University of Berlin, he received his doctorate in Bielefeld where he also qualified as a university lecturer in education science. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Education Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and he is a member of several organisations, including the Foundation Council of the German Institute for International Pedagogical Research (DIPF) in Frankfurt. His areas of teaching and research are education and migration, profession and organisation.
http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb04/personen/radtke/index.html
Manfred Rolfes
After completing his teaching degrees with a focus on Geography and German, Manfred Rolfes worked as a research fellow in the project “Longitudinal Study on University Graduates” at the University of Kassel. He also worked as a research fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Osnabrück. Since March 2004, he has been Professor of Regional Studies (human geography) at the Institute of Geography of the University of Potsdam. In 2006 Rolfes was a visiting professor at the University of Toulouse. His main research fields are applied urban research, tourist space and its constructions and relations between (in)security, risk and space.
Peter Vorderer
Peter Vorderer studied psychology and sociology at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Mannheim, the University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, and the New York University. In 1992 he gained his PhD from the TU Berlin. From 1994 to 2002 he was Professor of Media Sciences at the Institute for Journalism and Communications Research of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hanover. He subsequently taught at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Free University of Amsterdam where he also served as Director of the Center for Advanced Media Research. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Media and Communications Science at the University of Mannheim. The main focus of his research lies on media use and media impact, research on entertainment and new media.
http://mkw.uni-mannheim.de/english/prof_dr_peter_vorderer/index.html