Former Professors
Former Professors
Professorship in the Philosophical Foundations of Cultural Studies Analysis
Prof. Dr Dariusz Aleksandrowicz († 2022)
Obituary by Prof. Dr Harald Weydt: “He was a ‘critical theorist’”
Honorary Professorship in the History of Science and Medicine
Prof. Dr Christian Andree († 2025)
Professorship in Art and Art Theory
Prof. Dr Christoph Asendorf (Senior Scholar)
Ad hoc Professorship in Modern History and Cultural History
Prof. Dr Reinhard Blänkner (Senior Scholar)
Adjunct Professorship in Modern German Literary History
Prof. Dr Ursula Bock (Senior Scholar)
Professorship in Comparative Central European Studies
Prof. Dr Michał Buchowski (Senior Scholar)
Junior Professorship in Intercultural Communication
Prof. Dr Dominic Busch (University of the German Armed Forces, Munich)
German-Polish Cultural and Literary Relations and Gender Studies
Prof. Dr Bożena Chołuj (Senior Scholar)
Honorary Professorship in World Heritage Management and Cultural Tourism
Prof. Dr Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff
Professorship in Literary Studies: Eastern European Literatures
Prof. Dr Christa Ebert
Junior Professorship in Comparative Political Science
Prof. Dr Theresa Gessler (University of Hamburg)
Junior Professorship in Media, Culture and Communication
Dr Sarah Greifenstein
Professorship in Cultural Management
Prof. Dr Andrea Hausmann (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
Literary Studies, Western European Literatures
Prof. Dr Anselm Haverkamp
Professorship for Comparative Literature and Media Studies
Prof. Dr Eckhard Höfner († 2010)
Professorship of Comparative Cultural History of the Modern Era with a particular focus on the philosophical aspects of cultural studies
Prof. Dr Gangolf Hübinger (Senior Scholar)
Junior Professorship in Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology of Late-Modern Societies
Prof. Dr Anika Keinz
Professorship in Comparative Modern European History
Prof. Dr Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner († 2008)
Scholarly library of Prof. Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner
Professorship in Medieval History of Central Europe and Regional Cultural History
Prof. Dr Dr Ulrich Knefelkamp († 2020)
Obituaries:
- Obituary by Janine Nuyken and Prof. Dr Klaus Weber: ‘What mattered most to him were the bridges between people’
- Mario Quast remembers his teacher: “A wonderful person and university lecturer”
- Obituary by Prof. Dr Reinhard Blänkner on behalf of the Friends’ Association for Research into the History of the Viadrina
Ad hoc Professorship in Economic and Social Geography
Prof. Dr Stefan Krätke
Professorship in Modern History and Regional History
Prof. Dr Brigitte Meier
Professorship in Comparative European Economic and Social History
Prof. Dr Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Professorship for Foreign Language Teaching with a particular focus on Polish, German-Polish cultural comparison and language development
Prof. Dr Waldemar Pfeiffer
Memories of the former professor and founding senator: “Viadrina mourns the loss of Founding Senator Prof. Dr Waldemar Pfeiffer‘“
Professorship for Comparative Cultural Sociology
Prof. Dr Detlef Pollack (University of Münster)
Prof. Dr Andreas Reckwitz (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Honorary Professorship in Art History
Prof. Dr Brigitte Rieger-Jähner
Professorship in Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology
Prof. Dr Werner Schiffauer (Senior Scholar)
Professorship in Eastern European History
Junior Professorship in Transcultural Health Sciences
Prof. Dr Stefan Schmidt
Chair in Language Use and Therapeutic Communication
Professorship in Modern Economic and Social History
Prof. Dr Helga Schultz († 2016)
Professorship in Comparative Political Sociology
Prof. Dr Anna Schwarz (Senior Scholar)
Junior Professorship in Literary Studies, History of Knowledge and Media
Prof. Dr Melanie Sehgal
Junior Professorship in Polish and Ukrainian Studies
Prof. Dr Philipp Ther (Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna)
Endowed Chair in Research Methodology of Complementary Medicine and Healing
Prof. Dr Dr Harald Walach
Professorship in Descriptive Linguistics and Interlingual Sociolinguistics
Prof. Dr Harald Weydt
Adjunct Professorship in Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology
Prof. Dr Barbara Wolbert