Nine New Professors Appointed
14 May 2009
The Cluster of Excellence has successfully appointed nine new professors within less than one year. The new professors joining the Cluster are, without exception, outstanding academics, internationally acknowledged in their respective fields and are expected to boost significantly the Cluster’s scientific competence in all research areas. It is a significant achievement for the Cluster that in each of the nine appointments, the candidate ranked highest by the search committees accepted the Cluster’s offer, despite competition from prominent universities.
Thus, the Cluster has successfully recruited its team at an early stage, now consists of 32 principal investigators and more than 80 researchers.
The new professors in detail:
1. Professor Christopher Daase joins the Cluster from Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich. Professor Daase is an expert on international relations and security studies and is now appointed professor for international organizations.
2. Professor Nicole Deitelhoff, a founding member of the Cluster, was appointed as new professor for international relations and theories of global regulatory policy. In addition, she has taken the position of coordinator for the Cluster’s graduate education programme.
3. Professor Nikita Dhawan was appointed as junior professor for gender and postcolonial studies in 2008. Within the Cluster's research programme, Dhawan will focus on migration, gender, non-discrimination and racism.
4. Professor Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, currently assistant professor at Harvard University, has been appointed professor of macroeconomics and development within the Cluster of Excellence. Fuchs-Schündeln will work on the emergence and spreading of normative concepts of economic development and the competition among them.
5. Professor Stefan Gosepath appointed professor for international political theory. A political theorist and a philosopher, Prof. Gosepath has joined the Cluster from the University of Bremen, adding expertise in global justice and human rights to the Cluster's research programme.
6. Professor Christoph Menke, currently Theodor-Heuss-Professor at the New York New School for Social Research, joins the Cluster in summer 2009 to take the position of professor for practical philosophy with special interest in philosophy of law and political philosophy.
7. Professor Alexander Peukert was appointed as junior professor for International intellectual property law. Formerly a research assisstant at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, he works on intellectual property rights with special focus on conflicts related to their expansion.
8. Professor Susanne Schröter was appointed as professor of anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Orders in 2008. Within the Cluster's research programme, Schröter examines the transformation of postcolonial, especially Islamic, societies.
9. Professor Annette Warner has been professor for the history of science of the pre-modern world since January 2009. Warner explores the role of science in the establishment and justification of normative orders in the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
