Prof. Dr. Anna Amelina

Anna Amelina has been the Chair of Intercultural Studies at BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg since May 2017. Before holding this position, she was a junior professor of Sociology with a focus on migration research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Her main research areas include the sociology of knowledge and culture, migration and transnational studies, the sociology of social inequalities, and gender and intersectionality studies. In May 2018, Anna Amelina was awarded the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies.