Lecturers
The programme is taught by specialists in their various disciplines. Instructors have a wide range of specializations and cultural interests and encourage trans- and interdisciplinary approaches in classwork.
Birgit Herrmann studied Modern China (B.A.) and Chinese Studies (M.A.) at JMU Würzburg and Peking University. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on late marriage and voluntary childlessness in contemporary urban China. In 2023, she started working for the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts. She is responsible for the Chinese classes in the INSIGHTS programme.
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Contact: birgit.herrmann@uni-wuerzburg.de
Sabrina Hüttner earned a master’s degree in American studies, cultural studies, economics, pedagogy, and political sciences from the JMU Würzburg and Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK. From 2007 until 2014 she worked as assistant professor (wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiterin) in the American studies department and from 2015 until 2016 as program coordinator at the Service Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (ZiLS) at the University of Würzburg.
Since 2017 she has been working as program manager and acting director at the local community college (vhs Würzburg & Umgebung).
She has been teaching classes on the history of the European Union ever since 2008 and has always been fascinated by the strange animal that is the EU.
Course: From Paris to Lisbon and Beyond: A Short History of Germany's Role in the EU
Contact: s.huettner@uni-wuerzburg.de
Christina Schäfer is an accomplished scholar and lecturer, with a Magister's degree and Staatsexamen in German and History from JMU Würzburg. She completed her PhD in 2018, with a dissertation on “Erich Welter. Der Mann hinter der FAZ”. Since then, she has been working in the Dean's Office. In addition to her administrative duties, she has also given lectures in the INSIGHTS programme (formerly known as Würzburg English Language Programme). In July 2023 Christina Schäfer was appointed as the manager the INSIGHTS programme. She teaches a variety of subjects, most of which have a historical approach.
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Luise Stark has been studying European Ethnology and Philosophy and Religion at JMU Würzburg since 2019 and has been working as a student assistant at both chairs since 2020. Her research focuses on design anthropology, beyond human studies and economics of religion. From 2013 until 2018, Luise Stark studied design at the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg. Since completing her Master's degree in 2018, she has been working as a freelance multimedia designer and meanwhile also as science communicator at her own studio.
Course: Folklike Germany: Customs and Traditions
Contact: luise.stark@uni-wuerzburg.de
Lisa Stolz studied Law, English-Speaking Cultures, and History at the Universities of Heidelberg and Würzburg, concluding in 2020 with a Master's thesis on Physics Nobel Laureates Albert Einstein and Johannes Stark. Following her studies, she worked at the Chair for Contemporary History at the University of Würzburg. Since 2021, she has been a Research Associate at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the project "Biographical Studies of Leopoldina Members during the Nazi Era." Concurrently, she is working on her doctoral thesis. Her primary research focuses include media history, memory studies, and the history of law and science. She has been teaching since 2017, and since 2019, she has also been part of the INSIGHTS (formerly known as WELP) programme.
Course: Crime and Punishment: German Historical Criminal Cases and Newspapers (together with Dr. Christina Schäfer)
Contact: lisa.stolz@uni-wuerzburg.de
Peter A. Süß studied history, art history, ethnology, philosophy as well as English and Romance studies at the University of Würzburg and completed his studies with a Magister’s degree. After several years in professional life, he received his PhD with a thesis on the history of the University of Würzburg. For many years he worked as a scholar and lecturer at the University’s Institute of History as well as in the Department of General Sciences at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences.
He is also active in the area of cultural management and as a speaker, seminar leader and guide in Würzburg and Franconia, but also on study trips abroad. His list of publications as experienced editor and author is extensive. He offers a plethora of lectures, mostly in the field of Political, Cultural and Art history as well as Parliamentarianism and Applied Geography.
Since autumn 2009 he has been creating, leading and organizing the “Würzburg English Language Programme” (WELP) at the Faculty of Arts as its director. After the reorganisation and renaming of the programme to INSIGHTS in summer 2023, he handed over the respective management to Dr. Christina Schäfer.
Courses:
- Culture and Life in Germany: On the Track towards Unity: German History 1800–1900
- Baroque and Rococo Art in Germany
- German History: German Monuments Reflecting State History
Contact: peter.suesz@uni-wuerzburg.de
