Our carefully curated team of experts combines long standing excellence in social-ecological research and the environmental humanities, advancing basic research, teaching and policymaing in relation to Global Environmental Change.
Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Islamic World, University of Cologne,
Professor of Islamic Studies
Fields of Expertise:
Iranian culture and diasporas • Cultural relations between Iranian, European and Asian spaces • Global reform movements within Islam, especially around gender and ecology
Department of English II, University of Cologne
Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Teaching of English
Fields of Expertise:
Education for sustainability and resilience • Inter- and transcultural learning with literature • Human-animal studies • Inclusive education
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Director of Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Fields of Expertise:
Economic sociology • Role of expectations in economic decision-making and for the dynamics of capitalist development • Wealth inequality
Institute for Geography, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor for Human Geography,
Center for Geographies of Global Inequalities
Fields of Expertise:
Uneven geographies of health • Multispecies cohabitation • Entangled mobilities of humans and Aedes mosquitoes
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fields of Expertise:
Human-environment interaction, conflict • Transition of local knowledge • Southern and Eastern Africa
Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne
Heisenberg Professor for Phenomenology and Anthropology, and Director of the Husserl Archives, University of Cologne
Fields of Expertise:
Philosophy of mind • Ecophenomenology • Resilience in religion and spirituality
Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Professor for Sociology
Fields of Expertise:
Social Inequality • Racism and anti-racism • Living together in diversity • Postcolonial theories
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne
Professor for Human Geography
Fields of Expertise:
Economic geography • Agricultural geography • Globalization and global value chains • Regional development • Human-nature conflicts • European Union • Central and Eastern Europe • Sub-Saharan Africa
Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne
Scientific Managing Director of GSSC
Fields of Expertise:
Economic anthropology, Political ecology • (Energy) Infrastructure • Rural-urban relations, Land-use change, Migration • Eastern and Southern Africa
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape
South African Research Chair and Professor in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Fields of Expertise:
African development studies • Land rights and agrarian reform • Land deals in Africa
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fields of Expertise:
Environmental ethnology • Political ecology • Anthropology of the Future • Indonesia
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne
Professor and Chair of Human Geography
Fields of Expertise:
Megacity and urbanization studies • Migration, ethnic minorities, socio-economic disparities • Development, transition and regional studies • Southeast Asia, India, Iceland, Switzerland, China
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) and Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
Professor of Environmental Anthropology
Fields of Expertise:
Anthropology of Water • Political Ecology • Volatility • Circumpolar North
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
Professor (W3) for Cross-cultural and Urban Communication
Fields of Expertise:
Urbanism • Media and communication • State-society relations • Development • Visualization in participatory programmes • Audiovisual methods • Hip Hop studies • Regions: Southeast Asia and the Pearl River Delta
Department of History and Geography, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
Professor of History and Geography
Fields of Expertise:
Environmental history • History of national parks • Latin America
Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne
Professor (W3) for Romance Philology (Spanish/French)
Fields of Expertise:
World Literature Debate and Latin America • Literatures of the Spanish and French Caribbean • Literatures of Romanticism • Transculturality
Institute of History and Graduate Program on Social History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Professor of Brazilian Environmental History
Fields of Expertise:
Environmental history and politics • History of Science and the Anthropocene, history of environmental policies • Latin America
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne
Professor for Human Geography
Fields of Expertise:
Economic Geography, Vulnerability and Poverty Research • Regional Innovation Systems and knowledge-based regional Development • Regional Labour Markets • Regional Economic Impact Assessment of large investment projects • Europe, Southeast Asia, and China
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne
Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities
Fields of Expertise:
Environmental literary, historical, philosophical and religious studies • Multispecies studies • Decolonial studies • Disaster studies
The Aga Khan University, Arusha Campus
Assistant Professor & Research Director, Climate and Environmental Research Station
Fields of Expertise:
Land and agrarian studies, Natural resource democratic governance • Green economy • Rural livelihoods, Agriculture and food systems • Biodiversity and community-led conservation & tourism
Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne
Professor for Cultural Anthropology of Africa
Fields of Expertise:
Comparative ethnography of hunter-gatherers • Social practices of sharing and (re-)distribution • Anthropological approaches to time and place
Department of Romance Studies, University of Cologne
Junior professor for Romance Literary Studies
Fields of Expertise:
Landscape aesthetics and extractivism in Latin American Literature • Memory Studies, Affect • Chilean Literature, Francophone Literatures
Fantastic fiction
School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University
Kuige Professor of Ethnology
Fields of Expertise:
modern Tibetan Buddhism • politics of ethnic diversity in • China, Eurasian secularisms • China, Himalayan borderlands, Tibetan Plateau
Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Fields of Expertise:
Anthropology of development • historical ethnography • fishing, agriculture, and plantation • communities and tourism
Department of German Studies, University of Tübingen
Professor (W3) for Modern German Literature, Comparative Media and Ecocriticism
Department of German Studies, University of Tübingen
Fields of Expertise:
Literary and media ecology • transmedia aesthetics of nature • cultural biodiversity and extinction studies • cross-cultural comparison of resilience discourses
Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Classen-Kappelmann-Straße 24
50931 Cologne, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)221 47076657
E-mail: noah.kahindi@uni-koeln.de