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Chair of Cultural Management Prof. Dr. Jens Adam

Research assistants

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Rikke holds a Master's degree in History and International Development Studies from Roskilde University and a Master's degree in European Ethnology from Humboldt University in Berlin. Her interest in heritage and museum studies began in 2012 when she worked as a museum guide at the Jewish Museum Berlin. During her studies, she worked at CARMAH – the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museum and Heritage. She completed her studies with a research thesis on the role of Berlin museums for new migrants and refugees after the "Summer of Migration" in 2015.
From 2019 to 2021, she was a research assistant at the University of Osnabrück at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies in the project Kultmix – Cultural Production in the Migration Society. Back in museum practice, Rikke worked as a research trainee at the Museum Pankow in Berlin from 2021 to 2023. As a freelance museum anthropologist, she has collaborated with a variety of heritage institutions in Germany and curated several exhibitions.
Since September 2025, she has been a research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Management. In her teaching, she encourages collaborative work and supports students in developing problem-oriented research projects based on their interests.

Rikke Gram

LG 2A, Room A 0.01
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 2
03046 Cottbus

Tel. +49 (0) 355 69- 2479

gram(at)b-tu.de 

Nathalie Isaak is a cultural anthropologist. During her first degree in Cultural Anthropology and History at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, she spent two semesters studying in Turku and Saint Petersburg. At the University of Weimar, she also studied intercultural music and event management and undertook an internship at a municipal cultural organisation. She subsequently went to the University of Hamburg and completed her degree in Empirical Cultural Studies in 2022. Nathalie Isaak’s academic interests include migration, Southern and Eastern European studies, transnational and transcultural perspectives, and ethnographic research. During this time, she worked as an intern at a TV production company specialising in cultural programmes, as a student assistant at the Institute of Ethnology, and as a tutor and lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
Since then, Nathalie Isaak has been continuously involved in teaching at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. From 2022 to 2024, she also worked in Hamburg on an ESF-funded project providing counselling to young protection seekers from Ukraine. In 2025, she began an eight-month further training programme to become a consultant for collection management and quality standards in museums in Lower Saxony. As part of this qualification, she worked as academic staff at the German Sielhafen Museum Carolinensiel at the Wadden Sea.
Since October 2025, she is an academic staff member in the Department of Cultural Management at BTU. Alongside her teaching activities there, she is currently planning her doctoral research project. Her research interests lie in the significance, interpretation and handling of culture within fragile structures, with a focus on Ukrainian cultural work in the age of Russian neo-imperialism. In her teaching and research, she emphasises a critical and reflexive research approach, an ethnographically oriented methodology, and an epistemology dedicated to a relational and assembled understanding of the world.

Nathalie Isaak

LG 2A, Room A 0.01
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 2
03046 Cottbus

Tel. +49 (0) 355 69- 3814

isaak@b-tu.de 

Anca Claudia Prodan is a scholar of Heritage Studies, with academic roots in Philosophy and Anthropology. Since January 2026, she is Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Cultural Management at BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg, next to her ongoing position as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Technoscience Studies, where she develops a relational approach to postdigital heritage research and practice. Her lectures cover foundational courses on theories and methods, UNESCO policy and governance, and communication and culture. Her teaching approach, shaped through fifteen years of experience as, encourages openness, intellectual freedom, and collaborative knowledge production.

She previously held positions at the Chair of Intercultural Studies/ UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies at BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg; the Institute Heritage Studies; the Latvian Academy Culture; and the Sorbian Institute. She contributed to shaping study programmes and curricula in Heritage Studies, and advancing its development as a research field. In 2026, she established the Documentary Heritage Network within the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, extending her long-standing engagement with the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.

Beyond the university, Anca collaborates with cultural and heritage institutions through advisory work and participatory projects. Her work with UNESCO, from authoring the discussion paper for the 2015 Recommendation on documentary heritage to serving in expert and rapporteur roles, informs her broader interest in bridging policy, research, education and practice. 

Anca Claudia Prodan, Ph.D.

LG 2A, Room A 0.01
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 2
03046 Cottbus

Tel. +49 (0) 355 69- 3979

anca.prodan(at)b-tu.de