Dr. Lydia Potts
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Phone: +49 441 798 2530
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Dr. Lydia Potts
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