Third-party funded projects and research positions
Research achievements are reflected in third-party funded projects and research positions. Here you will find a selection of externally funded projects and an overview of current research positions at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
- SFB 1187 Media of Cooperation
- Head: Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
(previously: Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz, Prof. Dr. Tristan Thielmann) - Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2016
- Head: Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
- SFB 1472 Transformations of the Popular
- Head: Prof. Dr. Niels Werber
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021
- Dialect Atlas of Central West Germany
- Head: Prof. Dr. Petra M. Vogel
- Funded by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, 2016 - 2032
- Research group 5183 Cross-border mobility and institutional dynamics
- Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021
- Coordination Fund (sub-project of Research Group 5183 Cross-border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021
- Asylum Regimes and Transnational Families of Refugees in Germany and France. Family reunification as official practice and everyday experience (sub-project of Research Group 5183 Cross-border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021
- Mobility and institutions of intermediary rule in southern Africa (sub-project of the research group 5183 Cross-border mobility and institutional dynamics)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen
/ PD Dr. Mario Krämer - Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), since 2021
- Head: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen
- ZOOGESTURES
- Head: Dr. Johannes F. M. Schick
- Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, January 2026 - January 2030
- The Theater of Hans Sachs 1517-1565: Critical and annotated new edition of all carnival plays, comedies and tragedies including thematically similar poems
- Supervision: Prof. Dr. Hans Rudolf Velten, Prof. Dr. Nathanael Busch
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2026 - December 2028
- Clandestine Calculation: School Mathematics and Cultural Self-Assertion in Continental North America in the Long 18th Century
- Head: Dr. Lukas Etter
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), November 2025 - October 2028
- Transcription and hybrid edition of Carl Schmitt's diaries from the time of the Second World War
- Head: Prof. Dr. Philip Manow, Prof. Dr. Florian Meinel; Dr. Angela Reinthal
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), November 2025 - October 2028
- Youth in competition. Mobilization, competitive spirit and shaping the future in the 20th century
- Head: Prof. Dr. Reinhild Kreis, Prof. Dr. Christina Lubinski; Prof. Dr. Daniel Lövheim
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2025 - September 2028
- Making nature: A German-German history of environmental design, 1950s to 1990s
- Head: Dr. Philipp Kröger
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2025 - September 2028
- The European Field of Literature: Cultural Brokers and Border Practices
- Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2021 - January 2028
- Artificial intelligence in mathematics and German lessons
- Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Steinhoff; Prof. Dr. Ingo Witzke
- Funded by the Ministry of Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, September 2024 - December 2027
- Ecothrillers and ecocriticism in Latin America
- Head: Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), June 2024 - June 2027
- The 'human factor' in civil aviation. A comparison of the European and Soviet aviation industries (1950s to 1980s)
- Head: Dr. Sabrina Lausen
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2024 - April 2027
- On the cognitive and affective effects
of denominational-cooperative religious education. A cluster randomized controlled trial- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel, Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zimmermann
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2024 - March 2027
- Between professional autonomy and state appropriation: A genealogy of the relationship between democracy, governance and political education in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Head: Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig, PD Dr. Marlon Barbehön
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2024 to March 2027
- On the mediation and appropriation of systemic sustainability contexts between social and natural science perspectives in childhood. Concept and cooperation development for the practice of extracurricular learning venues
- Head: Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig, Prof. Dr. Jochen Lange
- Funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), April 2024 to March 2027
- Culture, practice, technology: On the philosophical foundation of the international anthropology of technology in the Durkheim School
- Head: Dr. Johannes Schick
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2024 - February 2027
- Precarious Staying: Mobilization and Immobilization in the Interaction between Tolerated Deportees and Immigration Authorities (Sub-project of the Research Group 5183 Cross-border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2022 - May 2026
- Digital Kant Center NRW
- Head: Prof. Dr. Cord Friebe
and Prof. Dr. Dieter Schönecker - Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, June 2022 - 2026
- Head: Prof. Dr. Cord Friebe
- Consequences of atypical working hours for the well-being of parents and children: A multi-country study (NONWELL)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Prof. Dr. Jianghong Li
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2023 to August 2026
- Center for Digital Methodologies in Media, Language and Technology Research
- Center for Pictorial Holocaust Narratives
- Digital Kant Center NRW
- Research Center for European Children's and Youth Literature (EKJL)
- Research Center for Literature in Electronic Media (LEM)
- Research Center for Popular Cultures
- Research Center for Reformed Theology and Pietism Research
- Research Centre SCHRIFT-KULTUR - Children's and Youth Literature and Literary Socialization
- Research Center Siegerland
- Research Center for Transnational Cultural History
- Hans Sachs Research Center
- POLIS - Center for Political and Sociological Education
- Center for Commentary Interpretations of Kant (ZetKIK)
- Queery Research Center: Queery/ing Popular Culture
- The European Field of Literature: Structures, Processes and Networks of Book Production and Translation in Europe
- Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2022 - December 2024
- Pasolini: popular (sub-project of the CRC 1472 Transformations of the Popular)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wild
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), April 2022 - December 2024
- digGer|net
- Head: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel, Prof. Dr. Stephan Habscheid, Prof. Dr. Torsten Steinhoff
- Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 2023 - September 2024
- Subjective well-being of parents and childless people in the middle and late stages of life: Well-being premiums and penalties of parenthood in Germany and Europe
- Head: Prof. Dr. Matthias Pollmann-Schult
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2021 - September 2024
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg in the dictatorships of the 20th century
- Head: Prof. Dr. Veronika Albrecht-Birkner
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2021 - August 2024
- Analytical Theology and Lay Theology (ATvsLT). Characteristic family resemblances and differences between the formal-logical constructions of analytical theology and the theological constructions of believers without theological education
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2020 - August 2024
- Religion as resource and risk. An empirical-longitudinal survey of the significance of religiosity for the coping with life and integration of young refugees
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
/ Prof. Dr. Manfred L. Pirner - Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2021 - August 2024
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
- Scientific network to determine the relationship between democracy education and civic education
- Head: Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2021 - July 2024
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Head: Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz
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Funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, July 2022 - June 2024
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- Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance - conditions, effects and remedies (EnTrust)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
- Funded by the EU, February 2020 - January 2024
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Funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), October 2021 - September 2023
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Directed by: Dr. Olaf Jann
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Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, October 2022 - September 2023
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- Right-wing discourse strategies against left-wing politics in social media
- Head: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel, Dr. Fabian Deus
- Funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation, September 2021 - August 2023
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Head: Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli
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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), March 2023 - April 2023
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- Workshop: Making nature: Knowledge, practices and technologies of environmental design in the second half of the 20th century
- Directed by: Prof. Dr. Noyan Dinçkal
and Dr. Philipp Kröger - Funded by the ESHE (European Society for the study of Human Evolution) and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, June 2023
- Directed by: Prof. Dr. Noyan Dinçkal
- Forms and functions of authorial epithets in the contemporary literary field
- Head: Prof. Dr. Jörg Döring
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2020 - January 2023
- Conference: Another God?
- Head: Prof. Dr. Michael Bongardt
- Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, September 2022 - December 2022
- Certificate program Roads to Democracies - Digital
- Head: Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn
- Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), December 2020 - December 2022
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Academic support: "A matter of faith? Prevention and political education in a society of diversity"
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Funded by the Protestant Support Group for Socio-Political Youth Education, January 2022 - December 2022
- True hatred. Disciplining emotions and political learning
- Head: Dr. Olaf Jann
- Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, April 2021 - September 2022
- Doing Europe - Cohesion and Integration in the European Union
- Head: Dr. Tetiana Havlin
- Funded by the Erasmus+ program, September 2019 - August 2022
- Conference: Transnational Renaissance
- Head: Prof. Dr. Mario Meliadò
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2022
- A new conflict for the energy transition
- Head: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Baringhorst
- Funded by the Mercator Foundation, August 2019 - July 2022
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Head: Prof. Dr. Yasmin Temelli
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Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), July 2022
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- Conference: Journeys across B/Orders in Canadian Studies
- Directed by: Dr. Alessandra Boller
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), June 2022
- True God and true man?
- Head: Dr. Mathias Winkler
- Funded by the Archdiocese of Paderborn, May 2022
- PoKoDi - Political communication in the digital space
- Head: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel
- Funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, June 2021 - May 2022
- Evaluation of the confessional-cooperative religious education in NRW
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel, Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zimmermann
- Funded by the Protestant Office NRW and the Catholic Office NRW, July 2019 - January 2022
- IVAC: International Virtual Academic Collaboration 2020-2021
- Project: Migration and collective identities - Chile, Georgia and Germany
- Head of the project: Prof. Dr. Raphaela Averkorn
- Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), until September 2021
- Individuality, distinctiveness and entanglement
- Head: Prof. Dr. Cord Friebe
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2019 - September 2021
- Dealing with religious heterogeneity in denominational religious education
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), September 2018 - August 2021
- European Network for Junior Reserachers in the Field of Plurilingualism and Education (ENROPE)
- Head: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer, September 2018 - August 2021
- Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Scientific evaluation: Influence of legal editing work on the comprehensibility of legislation
- Head: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Vogel
- Funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV), October 2019 - March 2021
- Creactive Citizen: Creative electronic citizen participation in infrastructure projects
- Head: Dr. Jörg Radtke
- Funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, April 2018 - March 2021
- Images of Outrage - Amateur Practices of Visualizing Protest
- Head: Prof. Dr. Susanne Regener
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2017 - 2020
- Engineers of the Announcement. Communication practices of the Federal Chancellery in the formative phase of German media democracy in the 1950s and 1960s
- Head: Prof. Dr. Angela Schwarz
- Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, October 2017 - September 2020
- Medicalization and Psychologization of Social Problems: Challenges and opportunities for social policy - MEPYSO
- Head: Dr. Nadine Reibling
- Funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, July 2017 - June 2020
- From pagan to Christian oracle. Divination in the everyday context of Christians with Augustine of Hippo
- Head: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoffmann
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), November 2016 - October 2019
- Mobile transitions - mobile lifestyles? Career choices and lifestyles during the transition to transnational academic careers in the European Union
- Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), October 2016 - September 2019
- Text revision in the multilingual orientation stage
- Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Steinhoff
/ Prof. Dr. Nicole Marx (University of Bremen) - Editing: Ursula Schöllmann
- Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), October 2016 - September 2019
- Head: Prof. Dr. Torsten Steinhoff
- The German Party Membership Study 2017: Party memberships in transition
- Headed by: Prof. Dr. Tim Spier (†)
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), June 2016 - June 2019
- Numbering Live, Metrics and Measures in Digital Media
- Head: Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
- Funded by: NWO (Netherlands Science Organization), January 2015 - January 2019