Board
Professor Dr. Viola B. Georgi
Director of the Center for Diversity, Democracy and Inclusion in Education (ZBI)
Professor for Diversity Education
Viola B. Georgi is a Professor for Diversity Education at the University of Hildesheim and Director of the Center for Diversity, Democracy and Inclusion in Migration Societies (ZBI). Between 2006 and 2012 she served as a junior professor for Intercultural Education at the Free University of Berlin. In 2010, she became a visiting professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she worked as a research associate at the Department of Social Sciences of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and at the Center for Applied Policy Research of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. She studied education and sociology at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the University of Bristol (GB) and Harvard University (USA).
Email: georgiv@uni-hildesheim.de
Call: +49 5121 883 10106
Fax: +49 5121 883 10107
Office: N229
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft
Abteilung Angewandte Erziehungswissenschaft
Universitätsplatz 1
31141 Hildesheim
Germany
Professor Dr. Elke Montanari
Board member at the Institute for German Language and Literature
Professor for German as a Second Language
Elke Montanari has been professor of German as a Second Language and Multilingualism at the University of Hildesheim since 2012. Her research focuses on the areas of multilingual language acquisition of German in childhood and adulthood, the multilingual lexicon, genus and authenticity.
Email: elke.montanari@uni-hildesheim.de
Call: +49 5121 883 30108
Office: LN 203
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim / Bühler Campus
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur
Lübecker Straße 3 (access from Lüneburger Straße)
31141 Hildesheim
Germany
Professor Dr. Hannes Schammann
Professor for Migration Policy
Hannes Schammann is Professor of Migration Policy at the University of Hildesheim. Prior to this, he worked for several years in migration and integration policy practice: as a project manager for migration and integration at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, as a consultant for fundamental issues of integration at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees as well as a coordinator for integration projects at the Federal Association for Protestant Youth Social Work. He has designed and accompanied numerous projects related to migration and integration. The main topics were "Flight and Asylum", "Islam in Germany", "Migration and Labour Market" and "Welcome Culture and Interculturality". From a predominantly institution-centred perspective, he deals with questions of migration and refugee policy in Germany. Hannes Schammann earned his doctorate at the University of Passau with an interdisciplinary thesis on ethnic marketing and integration. He studied "Languages, Economic and Cultural Studies" at the Universities of Passau and Concepción (Chile).
Email: hannes.schammann@uni-hildesheim.de
Call: +49 5121 883 10712
Office: F 208
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Universitätsplatz 1
31141 Hildesheim
Germany
Professor Dr. Janna Teltemann
Professor for Educational Sociology
Janna Teltemann is an Assistant Professor of Educational Sociology at the University of Hildesheim. Until 2015 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology and at the Collaborative Research Center 597 "Staatlichkeit im Wandel" at the University of Bremen. She studied sociology with a focus on urban sociology at the University of Bremen, where she earned her doctorate from 2007 to 2012 on the influence of education systems, welfare state regimes and integration policies on the school performance of migrants. In addition to guest residencies at the University of Amsterdam and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin, she worked as an external consultant for the OECD project "Migrant Education Review". Her research agenda includes educational inequality, changes in education policy and the comparison of education systems, integration of migrants and quantitative methods.
Email: telteman@uni-hildesheim.de
Call: +49 5121 883 10722
Office: F 301
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Universitätsplatz 1
31141 Hildesheim
Germany
Prof. Dr. Birgit Mandel
Institute for Cultural Policy, Executive Director
Prof. Dr. habil. Birgit Mandel is head of the cultural mediation and cultural management department at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim as well as the master's program in cultural mediation. Since 2019, she has been the Executive Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy. She is responsible for research projects in the fields of cultural visitor research, audience development, cultural mediation, cultural PR, (international) cultural management, cultural tourism, cultural entrepreneurship and cultural policy.
She is editor of the research platform kulturvermittlung-online.de and author of numerous publications, including: Arts/Cultural Management in International Contexts. Results of a research on the views of arts/cultural managers around the world regarding their profession, working conditions, current challenges, required competencies, and training opportunities (Hildesheim 2017), Teilhabeorientierte Kulturvermittlung (Bielefeld 2016), and Interkulturelles Audience Development (Bielefeld 2013). She has many years of practical experience in cultural management.
Email: mandel(at)uni-hildesheim.de
Call: +49 5121 883-20102
University of Hildesheim
Institute for Cultural Policy
Universitätsplatz 1 / 31141 Hildesheim
Germany
visitors address:
House 46 / Weißes Haus
Kulturcampus Domäne Marienburg
Domänenstraße 1 / 31141 Hildesheim
