University of Frankfurt, Dr.phil for Political Science

1978 - 1988

Assistant and Research Fellow, University of Braunschweig

1987

Dr. habil., venia in Political Science

1989 - 1993

Research Fellow for Human Rights and Prejudice at the Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig

1990

Lectureship in Political Science, University of Hamburg

1991

Lectureship in Political Science, University Frankfurt

1993

Onwards Professor of Political Science and Research into Prejudice, University of Magdeburg

2001

UNESCO Chairholder in Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg

Member of the board of the Federal Association of Civic Education

Member of the Academy for Intercultural Studies, Bayreuth

Member of the International Network for Education for Tolerance, Democracy and Human Rights - Bertelsmann Foundation - (till 2003)

Speaker of the Research Committee "Politics-Culture-Language" of the German Association for Political
Science (till 2003)

Speaker of the Research Group "Human Rights" of the German Association for Political Science

Chief editor of "POLIS", Journal for Citizenship Education (till 2003)

Member of the Board of the Research Committee "Citizenship Education" of German Association for Political Science

Member of the scientific board of "TOGETHER"

Association for Tolerance and Democracy

• Antisemitism

• Children rights and the learning of human rights

• Comparative textbook research

• Conditions for tolerance after September 11

• Human rights and migration

• Human rights and the internet

• Learning theory of human rights

• Prejudice and intolerance

• Right wing extremism

• Guestprofessor at Universidad Nacional de La Matenza (Summer 2004)

• Lectures at Libera Università degli studi "S.Pio V" (2005)