Fellows

Prof. Dr. Alina Kasinska

Professor at the Department of Engineering, Technology and Economics at the Pylyp Orlyk International Classical University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Research interests

Regional Economy, Natural reserve fund, Developed productive forces, Organizational mechanism for managing protected areas, Organizational adaptation, The role of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund in ensuring the integrated development of the region

Project Proposal

Organizational Adaptation to sustained cosmological Crisis - Extension of a longitudinal study of nature parks in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and the (de)occupation since February 2022

Education

Ph.D. Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Ukraine - Thesis title: Formation and use of territories of the nature reserve fund: theory and practice of implementation

Ph.D. International University of Business and Law, Kherson, Ukraine - Thesis title: Regional Aspects of Rational Agricultural Land Use (on the Example of Mykolaiv Region)

M.A. Mykolayiv State Agrarian University, Ukraine - speciality "Management of organizations" and qualified as an economist-manager

Fellowship

6 months, July - December 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Andreas König

Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Further details

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Prof. Dr. Olena Melnykova-Kurhanova

Associate Professor of Journalism Chair at the National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Research interests

Public communication, social communication, social media, fact-checking, media literacy, journalistic genres, journalism, speechwriting, information wars, political journalism, alternative media, strategic communications, human rights journalism, ethics of journalism, gender in mass media

Project Proposal

Public Communication in a City under Attack: Russia’s Informational Influence on the Citizens of Mariupol

Education

Ph.D. in Social Communications, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine Thesis title: THE PECULIARITIES OF DISSIDENT COMMUNICATIONS IN UKRAINE SINCE 1960S TO THE BEGINNING OF 1990s

M.A. Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.

B.A. Journalism, Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine

Fellowship

12 months, October 2022 - March 2023 & October 2024 - March 2024

Dr. Diana Mistreanu

Guest postdoctoral lecturer and researcher, University of Szeged, Hungary

Research interests

Cognitive literary studies, cognitive narratology, medical humanities, French and Francophone contemporary literature, indigenous Canadian literatures

Project Proposal

What Is It Like to Be a Migrant? Emotion and Inner Experience in Shumona Sinha’s Migrant and Refugee Narratives

Education

PhD in French literature/cognitive literary studies, University of Luxembourg and Université Paris-Est Créteil

M.A. in French language and literature, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Fellowship

6 months, May - July 2023 & January - March 2024

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

Professorship of Romance Literature and Culture with a focus on France

Contact details

E-mail address: diana.mistreanu21@gmail.com

Further details

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Prof. Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Professor of English and American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.

Research interests

Migration Studies, Border Studies, Whiteness Studies, Mass Media, Climate Migration

Project Proposal

Inequality, the Welfare State, and the Racialization of Post-Soviet Migrants in Germany and the United States

Education

PhD in English, University of Delaware

BA in Applied Linguistics, University of Leipzig

Fellowship

3 months, June - July 2023 & May - June 2024

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz

Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies

Contact details

E-mail address: Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu

Further details

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Future Fellows

We look forward to welcoming the following Fellows in the future:

Prof. Dr. Germano Glufke Reis

Professor and Coordinator of the SfoodLab (Sustainable Food Value Chains Laboratory) at the Federal University of Parana, School of Management, Brasil

Project Proposal

Disruptive innovation and “hybrid” products: an economic perspective of the disruptive potential of different forms of cultivated (cell-based) meats

Host at the University of Passau

Dr. Terese Venus

Bioeconomy Economics Junior Research Group

Contact details

E-mail address:
glufkereis@ufpr.br

Further details

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Prof. Christopher Sims, MFA

Associate Professor of the Practice at the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, NC, U.S.A

Project Proposal

The America-Bavaria Military Experience: A Visual Archive of Transnational Contact Zones

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz

Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies

Contact details

E-mail address:
csims@duke.edu

Further Details

Website

Prof. Dr. Igor Babin

Associate Professor of Department of Public Law at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

Project Proposal

An innovative human centered legal model of local taxes and fees for Ukraine

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Rainer Wernsmann

Chair of Constitutional, Administrative, Public Finance and Tax Law

Contact details

E-mail address:
i.babin@chnu.edu.ua

Further details

Website

Prof. Dr. Seyyedahmad Javadi

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Project Proposal

Towards Accountability in the use of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids: Concepts, Taxonomies, Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer

Chair of Computer Networks and Computer Communications

Contact details

E-mail address:
sajavadi@aut.ac.ir

Further Details

Website

Former Fellows

Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Henderson

Professor of Economics and the J. Weldon and Delores Cole Faculty Fellow in the Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies in the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.

Research interests

Nonparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Panel Data Econometrics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economics of Education

Project Proposal

Dynamic nonparametric multidimensional panel data models with application to migration flows across Europe

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Riverside

M.A., Economics, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Economics, University of California, Davis

A.A., Mathematics, Sacramento City College

Fellowship

2 months, June - July 2023

Hosts at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Harry Haupt | Dr. Joachim Schnurbus

Chair of Statistics and Data Analytics | Computational Statistics and Mathematics Teaching Unit

Contact details

E-mail address: djhender@cba.ua.edu

Further details

Website

Prof. Dr. Normann Witzleb

Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China & Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia

Research interests

Privacy law, data protection law, law and technology, comparative law, torts law, remedies

Project Proposal

Privacy and data protection in relation to artificial intelligence technologies: Evaluating the potential and effect of EU legislative initiatives for the Asia-Pacific region

Education

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Australian National University

LL.B. degree at Murdoch University Perth

Doctoral degree (Dr. iur.) European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Second State Examination in Law

Legal traineeship (Referendariat), Court of Appeal Berlin, Germany

First State Examination in Law, University of Würzburg Law Faculty

Diploma in Legal Studies, King’s College London, England

Fellowship

2 months, June - July 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Kai von Lewinski

Chair of Public Law, Media Law and Information Law

Further details

Website

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller

Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Research interests

intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education

Project Proposal

Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation

Fellowship

1 month, May 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Daniela Wawra

Chair of English Language and Culture

Further details

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Dr. Nwet Kay Khine

Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social and Development studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand

Research interests

Authoritarianism, media system transformation and environmental politics and policies in transitional democracies

Project Proposal

The emergence of digital authoritarianism - Myanmar between Chinese and Russian influence - as a laboratory for a new regime type

Education

Ph.D. in Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand, Thesis title: Press Censorship in Myanmar From Colonial Days to Democratic Transition in The 21st Century

M.A in Globalization and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark and Hamburg University, Germany

M.A in International Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Fellowship

6 months, November 2022 - April 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar

Chair of Development Politics

Further details

Website

Dr. Edward Asiedu

Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (Development Finance Unit) and the Affiliate Faculty, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS)

Research interests

Behavioral and development economics, economics of crime and corruption, gender and small enterprise development, impact of culture and history on economic outcomes, agricultural economics

Project Proposal

The Effect of Poverty on Children’s Behaviour. Field Experiments in Ghanaian Villages

Education

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Development Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany, Thesis Title: Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

M. A., Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

B.Sc., University of Ghana, Legon– Ghana

Fellowship

6 months, April – September 2022

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm

Chair of Development Economics

Further details

Website