W3-Professorship for the field of “Interdisciplinary research on antisemitism in its entanglements”

The professorship is to be funded by the Berlin Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching (BCP). The program promotes the appointment of women to professorships and aims to increase the proportion of women scientists in leading positions. The professorship is offered pending the provision of funding.

Technische Universität Berlin is an Excellence University within the Berlin University Alliance, with around 35,000 students, approximately 350 professors, and around 7,000 employees. We value the diversity of our members, pursue the goals of equal opportunity, and are certified as a family-friedly university.
Founded in 1982, the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at TU Berlin is one of the most important institutions of its kind in the world. It deals with interdisciplinary basic research into various forms of discrimination, hostility and violence in their diverse causes, manifestations and effects in the past and present. The focus is on antisemitism, with neighboring topics such as racism, antiziganism, Islamophobia etc. as well as Jewish studies etc., playing a growing role in the Center's research and teaching. In the future, research at the ZfA must be understood even more in terms of the corresponding thematic, methodological and disciplinary interrelationships.

We are looking for a researcher who can represent antisemitism research in the breadth and interconnectedness of the discipline both professionally and methodologically. The candidate should be a humanities and/or social science scholar who focuses on antisemitism as an interdisciplinary form of discrimination, hostility and violence. Applicants must also be able to integrate at least one of two research perspectives into the future work of the ZfA:

• Jewish Studies: The perspective on Jews affected by antisemitism is important in this context. For the professorship, it should be explained how the commitment to the research network of the Selma Stern Center Berlin-Brandenburg, which is supported by the TU Berlin, can be expanded and intensified.
• Research on racism: Antisemitism in its social constitution should be related to other forms of discrimination, hostility and violence - such as anti-Muslim, anti-black racism or antiziganism. A concept should be developed for the professorship on how antisemitism research can be more closely integrated into the various initiatives and institutions of research on racism in Berlin-Brandenburg (e.g. DeZIM).

In terms of content, gender-theoretical issues are important in order to be able to integrate the topics of misogyny and misogyny in antisemitism research. Participation in and further development of teaching in the Master's program “Interdisciplinary Antisemitism Research” and in the Bachelor's programs “Culture and Technology” at Faculty I of the TU Berlin as well as intensive cooperation with Faculty I departments is expected. Existing cooperation with non-university and TU-wide institutions, e.g. the Selma Stern Center, should be continued and - if necessary - realigned according to the focus. We are looking for a scientist who takes a stand in social and political discussions and has proven skills in policy advice. As a university with an international profile, we require our professors to teach in German an English or be willing to acquire the language skills they lack within a reasonable period of time.
Tasks include leadership and management of the department and its employees, promotion of young researchers, women and social diversity, knowledge transfer, internationalization initiatives, gender- and diversity-competent and sustainability-oriented action as well as committee and commission work. In recent years, the ZfA has begun to integrate more methods and approaches of artificial intelligence (AI) and also to set up digitalization projects. The professorship is intended to continue this commitment to the fields as far as possible.

The hiring requirements according to § 100 ff. BerlHG must be filled. These include

• a compledted, relevant university degree with a focus on subjects relevant to antisemitism research (see your tasks)
• special aptitude for academic work, usually demonstrated by the quality of a doctoral degree in the humanities/social sciences or psychology, especially in the above-mentioned disciplines
• additional academic achievements, e. g. a positively evaluated junior professorship, habilitation or equivalent qualifications
• teaching aptitude, demonstrated through your teaching portfolio (see https://www. tu.berlin/go209650/)

Necessary competences are:

• qualified achievements in research and teaching as well as of – peer-reviewed or otherwise relevant – publications in antisemitism research as well as Jewish studies and/or racism research
• extensive teaching experience in the thematic areas that are of great importance in the degree program “Interdisciplinary Research on Antisemitism”, in particular antisemitism theory, Jewish thought in modern times, Jewish history and the present and/or social science or historical research on antisemitism and racism
• experience in acquiring third-party funding

Desirable competences:

• leadership and management qualities or qualities for working in the management of an institute
• experience in academic self-administration and the internal organization of an institute
• experience in dealing with the media and the public as well as political consulting
• concept for the expanded and intensified integration of the professorship and the ZfA into the relevant research landscape in Berlin, Germany, Europe and worldwide
• experience in promoting junior researchers andd in knowledge and technology transfer
• gender and diversity competences complete your profile

The Technical University of Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and therefore strongly encourages qualified female researchers to apply. Severely disabled applicants will be given preferential consideration if equally qualified. Applications from people of all nationalities and with a migrant background are welcome.

TU Berlin aims to improve fairness of its appointment procedures and has developed a template to take account of academic age in appointment procedures as part of a pilot project. The template is to be used regularly in the procedures from the beginning of 2023. The form (Excel file) is available for download here: https://www.tu.berlin/en/go209647/.

Please submit your application by 16/01/2026 quoting the reference I-522/25 as a single PDF file by email only to Professor Dr. Nina Langen, dean of Faculty I, at berufungen@humanities.tu-berlin.de. Your application should include CV, references, research concept, teaching portfolio, list of publications, documents demonstrating projects with third-party funding and other evidence and concepts mentioned above. Electronic documents submitted using cloud services such as WE-Transfer or Dropbox cannot be accepted.
If you would prefer to submit your application as a hard copy, please include a digital version on a USB stick and address the application to Technische Universität Berlin – Die Präsidentin – Dekanin der Fakultät I, Prof. Dr. Nina Langen, Sekr. FH 4-1, Fraunhoferstr. 33-36, 10623 Berlin. Your application cannot be returned to you for financial reasons. Please only submit copies of documents, not originals.

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