Professorships
Professorships within the Department of Social Sciences by subject:
Professorships in sociology
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut (Stiftung Mercator Professorship for Sociology, with a focus on the Social Dynamics of Ecological Transformation)
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Beyer (economic and organizational sociology)
- Prof. Dr. Anita Engels (globalization, environment and society)
- Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel (security and resilience)
- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kley (ecologization and quantitative methods of social research)
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann (sociology)
- Prof. Dr. Achim Oberg (digital social science)
- Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski (sociology with a focus on violence and security)
- Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder (sociology of scientific research)
- Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli (general sociology)
Professorships in political science
Full Professors
- Prof. Dr. Olaf Asbach (Political Science, with a Focus on History and Theory of Political Thought)
- Prof. Dr. Peter Niesen (Political Science, with a Focus on Political Theory)
- Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Political Science, with a Focus on Political Science and Research Methods)
- Prof. Dr. Vera Troeger (Political Science, with a Focus on Comparative Politics)
- Prof. Antje Wiener, PhD (Political Science, with a Focus on Global Governance)
Junior Professors
- Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller (Political Science, with a Focus on Globalisation and Goverance in Climate Policy) until 15 March 2025
- Prof. Dr. Max Schaub (Political Science, with a Focus on International Relations and Global Health)
Affiliiate Professors
- Prof. Dr. Merike Blofield (Political Science, with a Focus on Global Health and Social Policy)
- Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner (Political Science, with a Focus on Asian studies, and GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies)
- Prof. Dr. Elvira Rosert (Political Science, with a Focus on International Relations (IFSH))
- Prof. Dr. Alexandra Scacco (Political Science, with a Focus on Comparative Political Science: Migration, Health and Conflict in the Global South)
- Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder (Political Science, with a Focus on Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH))
Professorships in journalism and mass communication
- Prof. Dr. Michael Brüggemann (climate and science communication)
- Prof. Dr. Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw (digitized communication and sustainability)
- Prof. Dr. Volker Lilienthal (practice of quality journalism)
- Prof. Dr. Juliane Lischka (digital journalism)
- Prof. Dr. Judith Möller (empirical communication research, especially media use and social media effects)
Acting professorships
- Dr. Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse (Chair of Sociology: Social Dynamics of Ecological Transformation)
- Dr. Angela Pohlmann (Globalisation, Environment and Society)
- Dr. Matthias Revers (Journalism and Communication Studies)
- Dr. Nils Schuhmacher (Security and Reslience)
- Dr. Helge Schwiertz (Sociological Theory)
Senior professorships
- N.N.
Professors from other faculties
- Former: Prof. Dr. Thomas Malsch (until 2012 Professor of Sociology of Technology at the Technical University of Hamburg )
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scheffran
- Prof. Dr. Peter Wetzels
- Former: Prof. Dr. Hans von Storch (until 2015 Professor at the Institute for Meteorology at the University of Hamburg and Head of the ‘Institute for Coastal Research’ at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht - Centre for Materials and Coastal Research)
Former professors
Sociology
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Deichsel
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Eichner
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Heinemann
- Prof. Dr. Hans Wilhelm Hetzler
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kleining
- Prof. Dr. Hermann Korte
- Prof. Dr. Walter Kristof
- Prof. Dr. Rolf von Lüde
- Prof. Dr. Max Miller
- Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel
- Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger
- Prof. Dr. Marianne Pieper
- Prof. Dr. Heinz Renn
- Prof. Dr. Peter Runde
- Prof. Dr. Gregor Siefer
- Prof. Dr. Ingrid Sommerkorn
- Prof. Dr. phil Gerhard Stapelfeldt
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Fritz Sack (Criminological Social Research)
- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Scheerer (Criminological Social Research)
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Seßar (Criminological Social Research)
- Prof. Dr. Peter Stromberger
Political science
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Betz
- Prof. Dr. Michael Broska
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Jürgen Gantzel
- Prof. Dr. Michael Th. Greven
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hans-Hermann Hartwich
- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hein
- Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit
- Prof. Dr. Hans J. Kleinsteuber
- Prof. Dr. Christine Landfried
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Raschke
- Prof. Dr. Peter Raschke
- Prof. Dr. Peter Reichel
- Prof. Dr. Rainer Tetzlaff
Journalism and mass communication
- Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Roß
- Prof. Dr. Siegfried Weischenberg
Contact
if you want to contact former colleagues, please get in touch with the office of Social Sciences (Email: Geschaeftsstelle.sozialwissenschaften.wiso@uni-hamburg.de)