Dr. Lydia Potts

University lecturer focusing on Migration and Gender Studies in Cultural Studies and Social Sciences

• Coordinator Working Group Migration - Gender - Politics 
• Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course EMMIR
• Member of the network DIVERSITAS
• Coordinator of University of Oldenburg’s cooperation with selected European, African and Asian universities
• Associated member of the Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC)
• Founder member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women and Gender (ZFG)

Key Research Interests

Migration: history, political economy, global processes 

Gender: politics, religion/Islam, gender relations in comparative perspective incl. African and Arab societies and migrant communities 

Research methods: intercultural methodology, migrants’ biographies 

Transnational curriculum development in gender studies and migration studies

Teaching

• Globalisation and Migration
• Migration Politics
• Research Methods for Transcultural Contexts
• Historical and Contemporary Migration Processes
• Migration Theory
• Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies
• Colloquium for Bachelor’s/Master’s thesis
• International Relations