People
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Björn Alpermann
Head of the Joint Center, Principal Investigator of the project "Social Worlds: China's Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking"
bjoern.alpermann[at]uni-wuerzburg.de
Prof. Dr. Hans van Ess
Principal Investigator of the project "Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change"
ess[at]lmu.de
Prof. Dr. Elena Meyer-Clement
Principal Investigator of the project "Social Worlds: China's Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking"
elena.meyer.clement[at]hum.ku.dk
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler
Principal Investigator of the project "Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change"
barbara.mittler[at]zo.uni-heidelberg.de
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Principal Investigator of the project "Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups"
dominic.sachsenmaier[at]phil.uni-goettingen.de
Team Members
Antonie Angerer
Research Associate (Praedoc) in the project: "Social Worlds: China’s Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking" (until end of 2024)
antonie.angerer[at]uni-wuerzburg.de
Dr. Harlan David Chambers
Research Associate (Postdoc) in the project: "Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups"
harlan.chambers[at]uni-goettingen.de
Xiaojie Chang
Student Assistant in the project: "Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change"
xiaojie.chang[at]zo.uni-heidelberg.de
Ryanne Flock
Research Associate (Postdoc) in the project: "Social Worlds: China’s Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking"
ryanne.flock[at]uni-wuerzburg.de
Dr. Sara Landa
Research Associate (Postdoc) in the project: "Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change"
sara.landa[at]zo.uni-heidelberg.de
Matthias Schumann
Research Associate (Postdoc) in the project: "Epochal Lifeworlds: Narratives of Crisis and Change"
matthias.schumann[at]zo.uni-heidelberg.de
Andreas Günter Weis
Research Associate (Praedoc) in the project: "Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups"
andreas.weis[at]uni-goettingen.de
Xiaoyang Zhao
Student Assistant in the project: "Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups"
xiaoyang.zhao[at]stud.uni-goettingen.de
Collaboration Partners
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Emily Mae Graf
Up to March 2023 Research Associate (Postdoc) in the Worldmaking project, since April 2023 Junior Professor for Chinese Language, Literature and Culture at the University of Tübingen and associated member of the Joint Center.
emily.graf[at]uni-tuebingen.de
Dr. Nicolas Schillinger
Cooperation partner in the project "A Translingual Conceptual History of Chinese Worlds"
nicolas.schillinger[at]fau.de
