Staff
Professor Andreas Eckert
Director
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 04
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 09
Andreas.eckert(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
since 2009 director of the IGK “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History” at the Humboldt University, Berlin. From 2002 to 2007 he was professor for contemporary history with a focus on the history of Africa at the University of Hamburg. In 2007 he took over the chair of African history at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin; for a while he was also the institute’s director. He has undertaken research as a guest professor at various international universities such as Maison des Sciences de l' Homme, Paris, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is currently the director of the Forum for Transregional Studies.
CV and publications at the Website of the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften at Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Professor Jürgen Kocka
Permanent Fellow
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 05
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
juergen.kocka(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
from 1973 to 1988 he was professor for social history at the university of Bielefeld and from 1988 to 2009 professor for the history of the industrial world at the Free University, Berlin. From 2001 to 2007 he was president of the WZB Social Research Center in Berlin and from 2007 to 2009 he took up a research professorship at the center in ‘historical social science’. From 1998 to 2009 he was director of the Berlin School for Comparative European History (BKVGE). Since 2009 he has been a permanent fellow at the IGK “Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History” at Humboldt University, Berlin and a senior fellow at the Potsdam Centre for Research into Contemporary History.
Farah Barakat
Fellow Services
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 08
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
farah.barakat(at)asa.hu-berlin.de
Farah Barakat studied law and public management at the University of Aix-en-Provence (Aix-Marseille III) and the University Hamburg. Since 2006 she has worked in a variety of international projects. As a project coordinator in Marseille she organised intercultural trainings that took place in France, Germany, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and Turkey. Before joining the re:work, she worked in Berlin at the Stiftung Genshagen, for the Franco-German Youth Office and the HafenCity University Hamburg. At the IGK, she is responsible for the fellows.
Sebastian Großmann
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 11
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10
Fabio König
Student Assistant
Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 702 07
Fax: +49 (0)30 2093 702 10