Research

Grants & Research
 
 
2009
Research Grant Monika Steegmann Stiftung
 
 
2008/2009     
Senior Fellow (GCSC-Gießen). International Graduate Center for Cultural Studies (German Elite Programm)
 
 
2007/2008
Senior Research Fellow (IFK- International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Wien).
 
 
2006
Research fellowship for archival work on Jane E. Harrison in London/Cambridge, supported by The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin
 
 
2004-present
Associate Scientist and Co-proponent of the Graduate-School- Program: Gender as Category of Knowledge, Humboldt-University Berlin, Promoted by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
 
 
2005
DFG Grant for conceptualization and organization of the international conference “Production and Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Process of Modernization”, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 2006
 
 
2001-2002      
DFG research project “Male Bonding, Initiation and Experience” (in association with Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte), part of the DFG Program “Theatricality: Theatre as a Cultural Model in the Humanities”
 
 
1998-2000
DFG Research fellow for the project “Ritual and Ritualism in German Culture and as Cultural Theory”, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, part of the project “Cult Sites of German Everyday Life” of the DFG program “Theatricality: Theatre as a Cultural Model in the Humanities”
 
 
1997
Research fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, (RI); work on early American Puritanism
 
 
1988
Four-month research fellowship (U.S. Library of Congress); research on Edgar Allan Poe, funded by the Protestant Studies Foundation, Villigst, Germany
 
 
1987- 1989
Dissertation scholarship from the Protestant Studies Foundation, Villigst; Doctoral studies in North American Studies, John-F-Kennedy-Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin.
 
 
Research and Teaching Interests (topical and projects for the future)
 
·        History of Religious Studies, Gender and knowledge (Jane E. Harrison pioneer in Religious Studies and feminist cultural Theory);
 
·        Masculinity Studies: The Discourse of Crisis and the Pluralization of       Masculinity around 1900 until today; (Cult of the Hero, Warrior, Death Cult, Media and War)
 
·        Theories of Rituals (the performative turn);
 
·        Puritanism and Colonial History;
 
·        Nationalism as Religion. Civil Religion, Religion and Literature;
 
·        Colonial Studies, Gender and Diversity of Religion in Transfer-Processes from Europe to the Colonies