DFG (German Research Foundation) approves €10m in funding for a new Collaborative Research Center on “Human Differentiation” (SFB 1482)

The Obama Institute proudly confirms its participation in the new Collaborative Reseach Center “Human Differentiation” (SFB 1482), which has recently been approved for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Center will be established in July 2021 with an initial funding period of four years and potential renewals for up to twelve years.

The Center brings together a multitude of different research areas from the Social and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (JGU) in order to explore categories of human differentiation. It will also build and establish a theoretical framework for the analysis of processes of categorization. 

Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee, Prof. Dr. Axel Schäfer, and Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding of the Obama Institute will each be leading a project group within the CRC:

  • “Successful Aging: Best Agers at the Intersection between Differentiating Age and Achievement” (TP A04 Banerjee)
  • “Curated Bodies: Aesthetic Human Categorization and Bodily Differentiation in Magazines” (TP A06 Scheiding)
  • “Migration and Welfare States in the USA: Global and National Dynamics in Bureaucratic Human Differentiation” (TP B06 Schäfer)

For more details, please see the JGU and DFG press releases:

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