German Studies Dozenten

DAAD professors are German academics who teach at North American universities for up to five years in a wide variety of fields such as political science, history, anthropology and philosophy. Below you will find the list of current DAAD professors in Canada who, in addition to their academic work, are also available to speak about DAAD and its programs.

Research Interests: Concepts of democracy, democracy promotion by international actors, and transnational social movements.

Recent Experience: PhD in Global Studies (2017) from Leipzig University (Germany), Postdoc Fellowship at York University (2018-2019) and the Leibniz Science Campus Eastern Europe-Global Area (2019) in Leipzig. Since Fall 2020, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at York University teaching in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, and German Studies.

Recent Publications: “Globalization, EU Democracy Assistance and the World Social Forum: Concepts and Practices of Democracy” (2018: Palgrave Series “European Political Sociology”.

Host University: York University
Host Department: Department of Political Science
Contact: York University
Ross Building
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada
Tel.: (416) 736-2100 ext. 22398
Fax: (416) 736-5695
Email: michafyorku.ca
Website: https://michafiedlschuster.de/

Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary European History, Modern Germany, Modern Italy, History of Fascism, History of Terrorism, History of Humanitarianism, Film History

Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Toronto (current); Hannah Arendt DAAD Visiting Chair at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) in Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (since 2019); DAAD Visiting Professor at UNC Chapel Hill (2014-2018); VW Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University St. Louis (2013-2014)

Recent Publications: Latest Books: Die Geschichte des Terrorismus. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. UTB Verlag, 2022. Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press 2021; Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Of Hobbits and Tigers.” Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in Italy Since the Mid-1970s, in: J. Dafinger / M. Florin (eds), A Transnational History of Right-Wing Terrorism. Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900, London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 175-196. The Rise of the Right: Terrorism in the U.S. and Europe, in T. Hof / K. Larres (eds) Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations: Threats and Challenges, hrsg. von London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 43-74. Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian-Yugoslavian Border Region (1922-1954), in R. Hansen / A. Saupe / A. Wirsching / D. Yang (eds), Historical Authenticity and Victimhood in Twentieth-Century History and Commemorative Culture. The Construction of Victim Identities in International Comparison, Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press 2021, pp. 246-270. Widerwillige Retter? Die Judenpolitik des italienischen Außenministeriums unter Galeazzo Ciano von 1936 bis 1943, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 68, 2 (2020): 181-216. From Extremism to Terrorism: The Far Right in Italy and West Germany, Contemporary European History 27, 3 (2018): 412-431.

Host University: University of Toronto
Host Department: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Department of History

Contact:
University of Toronto
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Odette Hall, 3rd floor
50 St. Joseph St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4
Canada

Tel.: (416) 926-2324
Email: tobias.hof@utoronto.ca

Research Interests: History and Theory of Autobiography, Media of Mourning, Aesthetics of Play, Intellectual History of Western Europe in the 20th Century, European Maoism

Recent Experience: DAAD Visiting Professor at the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World, Université de Montréal (current, since 2022); Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Institute of German Philology, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2015-2022); Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate at the International Research Training Group ‘Interart’, Freie Universität Berlin (2007-2015).

Recent Publications: Latest Book: Sich selbst aufs Spiel setzen. Spiel als Technik und Medium von Subjektivierung, Munich: Fink, 2016 (coll. vol. ed. together with Christian Moser). Selected Articles and Book Chapters: “Self-Reflexive Maoism? Alberto Moravia’s pre-’68 Critique of the Consumer Society,” in: Álvaro J Vidal et. al. (ed.), Other ’68s: Lineages and Legacies of May ‘68’, Bern: Peter Lang, 2023 (forthcoming); “Mehrdeutigkeit – Zur Stellung der Philologie bei Szondi und Barthes“, in: Eurostudia 14, 2023 (forthcoming); “Interferenzen von Alltagssoziologie, Performance und Literatur um 1960. Lefebvre, Debord, Perec,“ in: Alltag! Literaturgeschichte eines Theoriereservoirs seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Vanessa Briese et. al., Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2023, pp. 175-203; the entries “Referentiality,” roland BARTHES par roland barthes,” and “Michel Leiris, La Règle du jeu,” in: Autobiography/Autofiction. An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, 3 Vols., ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2019, Vol. 1, pp. 384-389 and Vol. 3, pp. 1878-1891, pp. 1806-1821.

Host University: Université de Montréal
Host Department: FAS-Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Contact:
CP-6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
H3C 3J7
Canada

Tel.: (1) 514 343-6111
Email: regine.straetling@umontreal.ca

Research Interests: European and German history, European integration, Euro-Mediterranean relations, democratization, Middle East and North Africa

Recent Experience: DAAD Seconded Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada (current); Academic Dean, Institute for the International Education of Students, Freiburg, Germany (2022); Senior Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany (2019-2021); Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2017-2019); DAAD Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt (2013-2017).

Recent publications:
Edited volumes:
2023: (with Michelle Pace, Roskilde University) Knowledge Production in Higher Education: Between Europe and the Middle East. Manchester University Press.
2022: (with Lena-Maria Möller, University of Münster, and Zeina Hobaika, Université Saint Joseph Beirut) The MENA region & COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Future Prospects. London: Routledge.
Peer-reviewed articles:
2023: Problem-Panorama Nahost, Internationale Politik, March/April, 25-29 (in German).
2021: European Support for Arab Parliaments – A Successful Way to Democracy?, Middle East Law and Governance, 13(3): 363-385, https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13031232.
2021: (with Chahd Bahri, Université de Sousse) A Struggle for Institutionalization: The Tunisian ‘Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple’ and the dominance of consensus-oriented politics, Middle East Law and Governance, 13(3): 272-293, https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-13031234.
2020: Fanning Fears, winning Praise: Egypt’s Smart Play on Europe’s Apprehension of more Undocumented Immigration, Mediterranean Politics, 27(2): 170-191, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1758450.
2020: The “Chicken and Egg” Problem of Relevance: Political Parties and Parliaments in North Africa, The Journal of North African Studies, 25(6): 865-880, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2019.1644923.
Book chapters:
2023: (with Bassant Hassib, British University in Egypt) Challenges to a transformative education: “EUrientalism” at Egyptian universities, in Michelle Pace and Jan Claudius Völkel (eds) Knowledge Production in Higher Education: Between Europe and the Middle East. Manchester University Press, 157-176.
2022: …but tie your Camel! Islam and Democracy, in Ralf Wüstenberg, Zeina Barakat and Thies Münchow (eds.) Islam and Democracy: Law, Gender and the West, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 51-64.
2001: The Fingers of the “Invisible Hand”: Egypt’s Government Institutions, in: Robert Springborg, Sarah Smierciak, Amr Adly, Naomi Sakr et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Egypt, London: Routledge, 107-119.
2000: Pawns in the Army’s Hands: Political Parties in Military-Dominated Regimes, in: Francesco Cavatorta, Valeria Resta and Lise Storm (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Routledge, 125-136.
2019: The Impact of Brexit on the European Parliament: The Role of British MEPs in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs, in Christiansen, Thomas / Fromage, Diane (eds.) Brexit and Democracy: The Role of Parliaments in the UK and the European Union, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 263-291.

Host University: University of Ottawa
Host Department: School of Political Studies and Faculty of Social Sciences
Contact:
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
120 Université (FSS)
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada

Tel.: (613) 562-1718
Email: jvolkel@uottawa.ca