Prof. Dr. Kurt Franz (visiting professor) | |
| Visiting professor Dr. Kurt Franz teaches Islamic Studies and does research on the history of the Middle East (600 to 1600). He is interested in the interlocking of political and social history as well as the history of science. Using the example of revolutionary movements and the relationships between nomads and the resident population as well as slavery and labor division, he examines social developments regarding the transmission of knowledge, its partiality and intertextuality. In connection with the excellence initiative he came to the University of Tübingen in 2014. Currently, he establishes the "Islamic History Geodata Initiative" which is a research group about spatial history and historical cartography of Islam. Further information... |  |
Assistant Prof. Dr. Huang Fei | |
| Fei Huang was appointed W1 Junior Professor for Chinese History and Society at the Institute of Chinese and Korean Studies of Tübingen University in 2014. She earned her PhD in Chinese Studies at Leiden University in 2012. Before she joined Tübingen, she worked as a Teaching Associate and Visiting Scholar in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2012-2013). In December 2013, she was selected an Academia Sinica Postdoctoral scholar in Taipei. She was one of only two fellows to be awarded this additional distinguished fellowship in the field of Humanities and Social Science. Her research interests concentrate on landscape studies, material culture studies, historical anthropology, art history and cultural geography in late imperial China. Further Information... |  |
Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag | |
| Prof. Mittag specializes in Chinese historiography and historical thinking as well as Chinese intellectual history and “Classical Learning” (jingxue 經學). He has researched Song dynasty (940-1279) interpretations of the Book of Odes, the phenomenal posthumous rise of Wang Anshi (1021-1084) in the Confucian temple, as well as Chinese concepts of time and Chinese ways of mapping the world. He also researches manifold aspects of historical thinking and writing in pre-modern China, participating in many interdisciplinary projects on comparative historiography. He is currently working on a three-volume sourcebook for Chinese historiography and historical thinking from the ancient past to the present. Further information... |  |
Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee | |
| Prof. Lee is historian and Korean specialist. He teaches and does research in Tübingen since 2010. He is head of the department of Korean Studies and director of the King Sejong Institute Tübingen. His research focuses on colonialism and post-colonialism, Cold War, Migration and Diaspora. Currently he works on the following projects: „Welt aneignen. Alltagsgeschichte in transnationaler Perspektive“ (“Aquire the world. Everyday history in transnational perspective”, DFG), „Korea and East Asia in Global History“ (AKS), „Korean European Studies“ (DAAD) and Asian German Studies. Further information... |  |
Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin | |
| Heike Oberlin is Head of the Department of Indology. Her academic background includes studies in Indology and Social and Cultural Anthropology at Tübingen, complemented by training in Sanskrit theatre in the kūṭiyāṭṭam style in Kerala. Her main research interests are the performing arts of India, Malayalam and Kerala studies, manuscriptology and gender studies. In 2004 she obtained a Doctorate in Indology with distinction (Univ. of Würzburg) and was awarded the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize 2008 (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). Her habilitation (2013, venia legendi for Indology) was followed by the appointed as an “Außerplanmäßige Professorin” at Tübingen in 2016. In 2018, she was honored by the state government of Kerala as ‘Scholar in Residence’. In 2019, the Indian Council of Cultural Relations ICCR awarded her the Gisela Bonn Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of Indo-German relations. She had been invited as a visiting professor at La Sapienza University in Rome for March/April 2025. Further information... |  |
Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel | |
| Prof. Vogel (born in 1954) teaches and carries out research in Tübingen since 1994. At the department of Chinese and Korean Studies he holds the professorship in Chinese History and Society. His focal point lies on economic and social history, the history of natural sciences and technology as well as general cultural history of traditional China. He publicizes intensively to the realms of the history of money, mining and salt production, meteorology and sports (kickball ). More recent areas of interests cover research on Marco Polo and the role of China in the early history of globalization. Further information... |  |
