Women’s Representatives

Women’s Representatives of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Research and Publication Prize 2021 awarded!

In spring, the Research and Publication Award was once again announced to honor outstanding research by women in the humanities and social sciences. The 2021 Research Award goes to Ingrid Titzler for her research on blended psychotherapy. The 2021 Publication Prize will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Hanna Eglinger-Bartl for her monograph “Nomadic-Ecstatic-Magical. Scandinavian Arctic Primitivism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century”. The awards will be formally presented at the Faculty Doctoral Celebration in the spring of 2022. The Women’s Representatives of the Faculty Prof. Dr. Aida Bosch and Prof. Dr. Julia Obertreis congratulate Ms. Titzler and Prof. Dr. Eglinger-Bartl on receiving the prizes!

At the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, gender aspects are examined in research and teaching at the social and institutional level, depending on the individual disciplines. For example, the “career development of university graduates of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (BELA-E)” has been investigated with a DFG project since 1995.

Gender-specific socialization takes place in research and teaching, as well. The faculty aims at increasing the proportion of women on all qualification levels and especially in the areas where women are underrepresented. In addition, gender aspects are to be integrated in all fields of research and teaching.

The women’s representatives are continuously working on increasing the proportion of women particularly in these departments and those qualification levels in which women are underrepresented.

Area of Responsibilities

  • Quality assurance in appointment procedures
  • Voting right in department councils
  • Enforcement of target agreements for gender equality
  • Consulting regarding career and problems
  • Consulting concerning matters of sexual harassment
  • Consultation of new female professors
  • Establishing gender specific courses and research projects
  • Establishing and Controlling of Mentor Programs for young female scientists
  • Support of the development and continues improving of the FAU Family Service

Women’s representatives of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Prof. Dr. Aida Bosch

Women’s representative of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Department Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie
Department of Sociology

Deputy women’s representative of the faculty:

Dr. Katharina Gerund

Department of English and American Studies
Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)

The faculty’s women’s representative is supported by the deputy women’s representatives of the departments and an advisor.

Viktoria Kaufmann, M.A.

Advisor to the women’s representative of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Office of Equality and Diversity

Cordula Hallmeier, M.A.

Advisor to the women’s representative of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

Office of Equality and Diversity

Women’s representatives of the Departments

The women’s representatives are working towards the equality of women and men. They are contact persons for women scientists, female teachers and students of the Faculty and are committed to their concerns. The aim is to increase the proportion of women at all levels of science.

Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures

Prof. Dr. Corinna Reinhardt (on parental leave)
Dr. Cleophea Ferrari
Anna Schneider

Department of English, American, and Romance Studies

Dr. Katharina Gerund
Ruth Hoffmann

Department of Didactics

Dr. Katja Feigenspan (Akad.ORätin)
PD Dr. Christel Meier (Akad. ORat)

Department of German and Comparative Studies

PD Dr. Aura Heydenreich (Akad. ORat)
Dr. Karin Rädle

Department of History

Dr. Claudia Alraum
Helen Wagner (M.A.)

Department of Islamic-Religious Studies

Hadil Lababidi (on leave)
Dr. Eva Kepplinger
Imane El Guennouni

Department of Media Studies and Art History

Dr. Marina Beck
Prof. Dr. Bettina Brandl-Risi

Department of Education

Axel Gruhlke
Friederike Schmiedl

Department of Psychology

Dr. Klaudia Kramer (Dipl.-Psych., Akademische Oberrätin)
Christine Heinisch (Ph.D.)
Dr. Stephanie Böhme

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Christianna Bunt (M.A.)
Dr. Larissa Pfaller

Department of Sport Science

Verena Hartung
Dr. Sabine Mayer

School of Theology

PD Dr. Nicole Grochowina
Dr. Nadine Hamilton

Further women’s representatives of FAU

Target Agreements and Supporting Programs

The target agreements include the following supporting programs:

For further information please contact: phil-fb@fau.de

Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment will not be tolerated at FAU. With the guideline for the prevention and handling of cases of discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and the University Hospital Erlangen (UKER), which came into force on June 1, 2021, the university is taking a stand and sending a clear signal for an active approach to discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment.
For more information on contact and counseling points at FAU and on the possibility of a complaint procedure, please visit the pages of the Office for Equality and Diversity

Contact Points and Events