Prof. Dr. Llyod George Adu Amoah

Prof. Dr. Llyod George Adu Amoah

Llyod George Adu Amoah is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science and simultaneously founding Director of the newly established Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, as well as Acting Director of the Centre for European Studies. He has taught at Ashesi University as an Assistant Professor for almost a decade before moving to the University of Ghana.


Dominique Biehl

Dominique Biehl

Dominique Biehl studied history at Heidelberg University and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include European and global history of the 19th and 20th century as well as military history. He is currently working at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel as coordinator of the Graduate Program and the MA program in European Global Studies.


Dr. Cornelia Knab

Cornelia Knab

Cornelia Knab is scientific manager of the Institute for European Global Studies and research associate in European and global history. After her MA studies in modern history and musicology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), she earned her PhD in Modern History at Heidelberg University on the history of international cooperation to contain contagious animal diseases. Her research interests include European and global history, methodologies and theories of global history and of European Global Studies, the history of internationalism and international organization as well as the history of epidemics, epizootics, veterinary medicine and agricultural internationalism.


Dr. Philippe Major

Philippe Major

Philippe Major is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. After his studies of history and East Asian studies in Canada and Taiwan, he completed his PhD in philosophy at the National University of Singapore. After holding positions at the KU Leuven and the Academia Sinica in Taipei, he is currently working as member of the SNSF-funded research project "The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism". His research interests include modern Confucian philosophy, sociology of philosophy, modern Chinese intellectual history and the New Culture Movement (1915 – 1927).


Prof. Dr. Maximilian Mayer

Maximilian Mayer

Maximilian Mayer is Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at University of Bonn. He was assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, research fellow at Renmin University Beijing, research professor at Tongji University, Shanghai and senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University Munich. He worked at the Bonn University’s Center for Global Studies (CGS) as managing assistant and senior fellow, holds an MA from Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his PhD at Bonn University. His research interests include the global politics of science, innovation, and technology; China’s foreign and energy policy; global energy and climate politics; theories of International Relations. His publications include China’s Energy Thirst: Myth or Reality? (2007 together with Xuewu Gu), Changing orders: transdiciplinary analysis of global and local realities (2008, co-editer), two-volumes on The Global Politics of Science and Technology (2014, lead editor).


Lerato Posholi

Lerato Posholi

Lerato Posholi is research fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies. After completing her BA and MA studies in philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, she worked on her doctoral research on the entanglements of knowledge and power and their implications for the curriculum. In doing so, she contributed to Prof. Ralph Weber's research area European Global Knowledge Production. Her research interests include on curriculum studies, philosophy of education, epistemology and sociology of knowledge. currently member of the SNSF-funded research project Reversing the Gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies.


Prof. Dr. Corey Ross

Corey Ross

Corey Ross is Direoctor of the Institute for European Global Studies and Professor for European Global Studies. His expertise focuses on the history of imperialism and global environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research on the socio-environmental history of Europe’s relations with the rest of the world builds on interdisciplinarity, investigates the global, transimperial and transnational circulation of ideas, goods and people, and aims to highlight perspectives that are relevant to major present-day and future challenges.


Prof. Mary B. Setrana

Mary B. Setrana

Mary Boatemaa Setrana is the Director of the Centre for Migration Studies, at the University of Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. in Migration Studies from the University of Ghana and Radboud University, in the Netherlands. She is a member of various migration management technical and advisory groups including the African Union Commission (AUC) on migration governance, and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence on Migration & Mobility). She has led several policy dialogues and stakeholder consultative meetings including the African Union’s Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFOM) and the SADC secretariat’s Migration Dialogue for Southern Africa (MIDSA).


Prof. Dr. Christa Tobler

Christa Tobler

Christa Tobler is professor of European Law at the Institute for European Global Studies and at the Europa Institute of the University of Leiden (Netherlands). She obtainted her PhD in law at the University of Zurich. She has two research specialisations: 1) legal equality and discrimination in both economic and social law, and 2) the special legal relationship between the EU and Switzerland. At the Institute for European Global Studies, she leads a research project funded by the SNFS on Age Discrimination in Employment Law and Social Security Law. She appears regularly in the media in Switzerland and abroad as an expert in the field of European law.


Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber

Ralph Weber

Ralph Weber is associate professor of European Global Studies and director of the MA and PhD programs in European Global Studies at the University of Basel. His research interests include European global knowledge production, particularly European Studies in a global perspective and the question of Eurocentrism; 20th century Confucianism, Chinese political philosophy and comparative philosophy; and contemporary Swiss-Chinese relations and Chinese politics in its European and global implications. He is project leader of several research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and other institutions, and regularly active as an expert on Chinese politics in Swiss and international media.