Christina von Braun: short vita (english)

Prof. Dr. habil. Christina von Braun

Until 1963: school education in Italy, Germany, Great Britain
1963-64 Studies at New York University, New York (History, Play Writing, Psychology)
1964-68 Studies in Bonn/Cologne (Political Science, Sociology, International Law) Master Degree in Political Science
1968-1988 Free lance work as a writer (non fiction, cultural history) and film maker (documentaries on cultural history and theory) in New York (1968-70), Paris (1970-1981), Bonn (1981-1990).
From 1988 onwards: visiting professor in Frankfurt/M, Vienna, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Konstanz, Columbia University, Paris VI, Dartmouth College, N.H.
1990-1992: Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen
1991 Doctorate Degree (Dr. phil.) in Philosophy
1992 Habilitation: Venia: ‘Pedagogics, Cultural Studies, Media theory’
1994 Appointed Professor (C4) at Humboldt-University: Institute of Cultural Study, Chair for Cultural History and Gender
Dean of Faculty 1996-98
Initiator of the curriculum Gender Studies at Humboldt University in 1997
Head of the Gender Department from 1997-2004, anew since 2005.
since 2005 Coordinator of the DFG funded Graduate School ‘Gender as a Category of Knowledge’
2009 co-founder and director of the ‘Kollegium Jewish Studies’ at Humboldt University

Money - a cultural history (research and publication)
The role of gender in secular orientalist discourses (new research, publications)
The history of the veil (research project and publication)
The role of gender in the history of antisemitism (co-applicant of a doctorate program (Graduiertenkolleg) in Jewish Studies (host university: Potsdam)
Co applicant of a PhD program on ‘codification of violence in medial transformation’ (host university: Humboldt university, funded by the German research fund (DFG)
‘Gender as a category of knowledge’ (coordinator of a doctorate program on the topic, host university: Humboldt-University, funded by the Germany research fund DFG)
Gender and religion (among other projects: processess of secularization and sacralization of nations (funded by the German research fund (DFG)))
Media and the symbolic gender order (doctorate program, funded from 1999-2003 by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst)

Author of more than fifty films (documentaries, essays) on cultural history, gender (for a selection see below).
Exhibition and Texts on: Science + Fiction. Between Nano-World und Global Culture, Volkswagen Stiftung/Sprengel Museum, Hannover/Berlin, 2003
Curator of a plattform (conferences, workshops, exhibition, film festival) organized by the Goethe Institutes of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah on ‘Gender’ 2003.

since 2008, Vice President of the Goethe Institute
since 2005 Member of the Presidency (Präsidium) of the Goethe Insitute
1999-2005 Member of the Presidency of the Evangelischer Kirchentag
since 1999 Founding member and member of the board of directors of the ‘Green Academy’ linked to the Heinrich Boell-Foundation
from 1990-2000 founding member and co-editor of the bi-annual scientific magazine ‘Metis. Historical women’s and gender studies’
member of the advisory board of the Zeitschrift f. Sexualforschung (Sexual Sciences, University of Frankfurt)