Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba
- Former director of the BIM
- Head of the Integration, Social Networks and Cultural Lifestyles Department
phone: +49 (0)30 2093-46255
office.bim@hu-berlin.de
Research focus
- Everyday life and culture in European modernity
- national and ethnic identities
- Urban and metropolitan research
Academic career
- 1982 Promotion, 1987 Habilitation
- since 1992 Professor of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Managing Director of the Institute of European Ethnology
- since 2004 Member of the transatlantic DFG graduate program
"Metropolis Research Berlin – New York" - since 2011 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Forum for Intercultural Dialogue
- since 2012 Member of the German UNESCO Commission e.V.
- since 2012 Executive Director of the Georg Simmel Center
for Metropolitan Research - since 2012 Member of the Jury German-Turkish Cultural Olympiad
- since 2012 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin
- since 2013 Member of the Expert Committee "Intangible Cultural Heritage" of UNESCO
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