Georg-Simmel Center for Urban Studies

About us

Executive Director


Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland (Department of Urban and Regional Sociology)

Dr. Heike Oevermann (Vice executive director)
 

Council


Prof. Dr. Talja Blokland

Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht

Dr. Heike Oevermann

Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías 

Dr. Henrik Schultze
 

Supporter of the Georg-Simmel Center


The following Institutes of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin support the Georg-Simmel Center financially (in alphabetical order):
 

Department of European Ethnology

Geography Department

Department of Social Sciences
 

Members


Department of Cultural History and Theory

Department of Art and Visual History

Department of History

Department of Romance Literatures and Linguistics

Department of German Literature

Department of Psychology

Department of Computer Science
 

Research Groups


Urban Research Group: Urban Commons

Markus Kip (markus.kip@gsz.hu-berlin.de)

Urban Research Group: NYLON Berlin

Helen Gibson (gibson@gsnas.fu-berlin.de)

Urban Research Group: New Urban Tourism

Christoph Sommer (christoph.sommer@gsz.hu-berlin.de)

Urban Research Group: Global Urban Youth

Nina Margies (globalurbanyouth@gmail.com)

Urban Ethnography Lab

Carolin Genz (carolin.genz@hu-berlin.de)

Students' Research Group

Nicolas Goez (goeznicolas@gmail.com)
 

Associated Networks


The Artist and the City (Dr. Eszter Gantner)

stadt:gestalten. netzwerk junger urbanist_innen (Lisa Frach)

TACT - International Research on Art and City