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Board of Directors

The Humanism Project is headed by Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen (see below), Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. Also he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, who decide on the promotion of sub-projects within the framework of the Humanism Project. Before final decisions are made project applications are reviewed by the Steering Committee.  

Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen studied History, Philosophy, Literature Studies and  Education at Cologne University. After earning his Ph.D. in 1966, he became an Assistant Professor at Braunschweig und Freie University Berlin. He held chairs for Modern History at Bochum University (1974-1989) and General History at Bielefeld University(1989-1997) before becoming president of the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities from 1997 till 2007. Also he is Professor for General History and Historical Culture at the Witten/Herdecke University since 1996. His fields of research include theory of history and historiography, strategies of intercultural comparison, processes of sense generation, general issues of cultural orientation and intercultural communication in modern societies and last not least humanism in the era of globalization.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub holds the chair of "Social theory and Social psychology" at Bochum University since Summer 2008. Earlier he held the chair of "Intercultural Communication" at Chemnitz University of Technology from 2002 until 2008, taught at Erlangen-Nürnberg University, was Interim Professor at Giessen University and Research Professor at Witten-Herdecke University. From October 1999 till September 2001 he was board member at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities as well as in the supervision of the interdisciplinary study group entitled "Lebensformen im Widerstreit. Identität und Moral unter dem Druck gesellschaftlicher Desintegration". Furthermore he held a fellowship of the same institution and of the Center for interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung ZiF) at Bielefeld University in 1994/1995.