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Christoph Wulf | |
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 Christoph Wulf | |
| Nationality | German |
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| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin, University of Marburg |
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| Discipline | Anthropology,Education Sciences |
| Website | christophwulf |
Christoph Wulf is a German professor of Anthropology and Education at the Free University of Berlin.
Wulf completed his studies of history,education sciences,philosophy,and literature studies at the Free University of Berlin in 1968. The next year,he commenced his studies for a PhD at the University of Marburg on a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation. Following educational travels throughout the US at the invitation of the US Department of Education,he completed research stays at the universities of Stanford,Los Angeles,Boulder and New York. Between 1970 and 1975,Wulf was a researcher at the German Institute for International Research in Education in Frankfurt. In 1973,he obtained his PhD,and in 1975 his habilitation from Marburg and was appointed Professor of Education at the University of Siegen. Wulf has held the position of Professor of Anthropology and Education at the Free University of Berlin since 1980. His other roles include:member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin,past member of the post-graduate program "Körper-Inszenierungen" ("Stagings of the Body") (1997-2006),of the Collaborative Research Centre "Cultures of the Performative" (1999-2010),of the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" (2007-2014;Principal Investigator) and of the post-graduate program "InterArts Studies" (2006-2015) at the same university. Since 1988 he has been a member and since 2008 a Vice President of the German Commission of UNESCO. [1] His books have been translated into 20 languages. [2]
In 1972 Wulf founded the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association,whose first secretary he served as,and he co-founded the commission on Pedagogical Anthropology of the German Educational Research Association. He was a member of the board of directors of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Research,the International Peace Research Association (Oslo),the Groupe d’Études et de Recherches sur les Mondialisations (Paris),the German Academic Exchange Service (Bonn),and the scientific advisory group for the Comprehensive School Experiment in North Rhine-Westphalia (Düsseldorf). He has served as the president of the Network Educational Science Amsterdam and on the scientific advisory boards of the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (Paris/Lyon) and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna). The University of Bucharest awarded him the title "professor honoris causa" for his anthropological research.
Research stays and invited professorships have included the following locations:Stanford,Tokyo,Kyoto,Beijing,Shanghai,Mysore,Delhi,Paris,Lille,Strasbourg,Modena,Amsterdam,Stockholm,Copenhagen,London,Vienna,Rome,Lisbon,Moscow,Saint Petersburg,Kazan;São Paulo.
In 1992,he founded and has since been the editor-in-chief of the international journal of historical anthropology "Paragrana";he is also a co-editor of the "Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft" ("Journal of Educational Science") and a member of the scientific advisory board of numerous national and international journals and book series.
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