Erasmus Mundus MA Euroculture:
Society, politics and culture in a global context

MA Thesis Supervisions (Selection)




  • Alfred Häger, "Ukrainian Peace Facility" Updating the EU's Security and Defence Toolkit (UP/GOE)

  • Sophie Renhuldt, Giorgia Meloni: between post-fascism, post-feminism, and Italian pop politics (UD/GOE)

  • Amparo Gómez Castro, Combating the Disinformation in Europe: Case Study of the Spanish “War Against Disinformation” (GOE/GR)

  • Elisabetta Marzoli, The struggle of being a young person in Italy: how the young Italians are supported in order to start a new life outside of the family house (GOE/KR)

  • Terence Chan, Intentions and Perceptions of Immigration Policies: Investigating the new BN(O) Visa Scheme in a Neo-colonial Context and the Hong Kong Migrants in the UK (STR/GOE)

  • Ivo Trifonov, EU and Chinese engagements in Africa: Economic and political neo-colonialism in the 21st century? Case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GR/GOE)

  • Katarina Jarc, Participation of civil society in the field of culture: The 2025 European Capital of Culture initiative – GO! BORDERLESS (GR/GOE)

  • Ann-Kristin Müller, Advocating for a socially just transition in EU climate policy: A case study on Austrian and German trade unions’ participation in the policy-making of the Fit for 55 package (GOE/DE)

  • Hui-Yu Wenig, NGOs as Facilitators for the Integration of Foreigners in the Czech Republic. A Case Study of Center for Integration of Foreigners (Centrum pro integraci cizinců) (OL/GOE)

  • Reiner Duvenage, Habermas on Europe: Transnational Perspectives (GOE/KR)

  • Ching-Chieh Su, Culture under COVID-19: A Study on Governments’ Cultural Subsidy in Germany and Taiwan (GOE/STR)

  • Hannah Rittmeyer, Fostering Gender Equality in the Context of EU Accession: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Poland and Estonia (GOE/GR)

  • Hannah Bieber, The impossible homecoming? A Study of the Evolution of the French Government’s Discourses on French ISIS returnees between 2017 and 2020 (UP/GOE)

  • Kathleen Trencheny, Strategic partnerships and strategies of European and U.S. disinformation defense teams (GOE/STR)

  • Rhys Nugent, Youth participation in EU decision-making: meaningful participation? (GOE/DE)

  • Ismail EI Mouttaki, Public Identities of Maghrebi Migrant Workers and their Descendants in Post-colonial France (1970-2005) (GOE/GR)

  • Jelmer Herms, The Controversial Task of Saving the Planet: Resistance to Climate Change as an Everyday Political Reality by European Right-Wing Populists Explained (GR/GOE)

  • Augustine Wattez, Reporting the Syrian War: how are traditional news media adapting in time of “Social media war”? (GR/GOE)

  • Nora Slob, Treatment of LGBT+ Asylum seekers Across the EU (GOE/STR)

  • Auliannisa Hermawan, Migration Policy in Finland 2016. More Open Border or Closed? (UD/GOE)

  • Gianluca Michieletto, The Dark Side of Tourism: The Effects of Mass Tourism in the City of Venice (GOE/DE)

  • Jonas Begemann, European External Border Management and its Narratives. Aspects of Dominance and Neocolonialism in European Foreign Policy during the “Refugee Crisis” (GOE/UP)

  • Irene Alonso Toucido, Barcelona’s spaces of change. Citizen participation and its relationship with the urban space (GR/GOE)

  • Isabel Toman, All about Soft Power? German Foreign Cultural Policy in Mexico (GOE/DE)

  • Anna Krämer, Towards military cooperation with the former enemy. Developments in Dutch foreign and defense policy aiming at positive integration of West Germany along the NATO forward defense line, 1945-1963 (GR/GOE)

  • Giulio Baroni, European Organic Regulation. Influence of the EU Organic Regulation in the Indian Organic Market and Production. The Case of Pune (STR/GOE)

  • Ines Mergler, Making Sense of the Migration-Fear Nexus: Culture of Fear and its Consequences for Political Discourse. A Political Critical Discourse Analysis of Hart aber fair in the German Migration Debate (2013-2017) (GOE/UP)

  • Alexander Pitts, Influence and Connectivity: The Relationship between Media, Citizens and Right-Wing Populism in Europe (GOE/GR)

  • Wenhui Song, "Schaffen Wir Das" – A Framing Analysis of the German "Refugee Crisis" 2015-17 (GR/GOE)

  • Jiraphan Homchit, The Point of No Return: Separatists’ Identity Politics Explained (GOE/STR)

  • Inge Mationschek, A Change in Climate? Reviewing the EU-India Strategic Partnership through Clean Energy and Climate Change (GR/GOE)

  • Mathilde Boisse-Despiaux, “Old” and “new” minorities in Europe: A comparison of two rights regimes (UP/GOE)

  • Arnab Dutta, The borders and the boundaries in the land of the quasi-masters: Continental Europe as seen through Bangla travel narratives, 1919-50 (GOE/GR) -- ALBA Award 2018

  • Jonathan Slagter, ‘Crisis’ as a Producer of Meaning: German Citizenship in the Context of the ‘European Migration Crisis’ (GOE/DE)

  • Răzvan Ioan Dumitru, Cinematic Representations of Colonial Binaries in British India During the 1930s (STR/GOE)

  • Marine Boulard, The Refugee Crisis and the 'Droitisation' of Politics (STR/GOE)

  • Jesse van Amelsvoort, Houses of the Past. The Contemporary Gothic Novel and the Space of Citizenship (GOE/GR) -- ALBA Award 2017

  • Mari Tsugawa, Re-imagining citizenship in a post-national world through the eyes of Japanese immigrants in the Netherlands (GOE/GR)

  • Wester Wagenaar, Challenging cultural identities. Between new forms of tourism and old European cities (UP/GOE)

  • Caitlin Boulter, Unheard Voices. Representation of Roma in Swedish and German Media Discourse (UP/GOE)

  • Franziska Brinkmann, Inclusive or inconsiderate? A field research on international degree programs at the University of Göttingen (GOE/KR)

  • Huimin Li, Compartmentalizing the Environment: Constructing and Overcoming 'Borders' in Polluting Industries (GOE/GR)

  • Jamina Vesta Jugo, Reel Immigrants on Fleet Street: Constructions of Immigrants in British Newspaper Reviews and Coverage of Recent Films Regarding Immigrants in Conflict with the Law (GOE/GR)

  • Maaike Goslinga, Framing 'The Snowden Files': A Discourse Analysis of UK News Media Coverage on Edward Snowden's Mass Surveillance Revelations (GOE/DE)

  • Yi-Chun Chen, Wir Waren So Frei? A Comparative Study of East and West Germans' Perspectives On the Transition Period of 1989/1990 (GOE/GR)

  • Eunjin Jeong, Political Integration of First Generation Immigrants: The Case of Postnational Members in Soysal''s Typology of Membership Model (GOE/STR)

  • Heather Southwood, The Conditional Tolerance of the Muslim Minority in Light of the Standards of the European Convention of Human Rights (GOE/KR)

  • Lora Markova, On the sepresentation of Transculturality in European Visual Media, Mapping Transcultural ldentities in European Artistic Expressions and Reconceptualizing Transculturality as the Creative Practice of Sampling Cultures (DE/GOE) -- ALBA Award 2012

  • Justus Römeth, Euroclash and Rock and Roll. Empirical Research on Fligstein's theory on Europeanness (KR/GOE)

  • Misuzu Matsuyama, Culture and Identity in the European Context (GOE/KR)

  • Zorana Kataranovski, Mile against transition: Persona non grata or a Serb par excellence? Old malaises and new challenges of the Serbs in the process of transition (GR/GOE)

  • Jannika Kühn, Discourses of European Responsible Tourism Management. Analyzing Tour Operators' Perceptions (GOE/GR)

  • Pia Schneider, Promoting 'Unity in Diversity': Foreign Cultural Policies of the EU and lndia (GOE/UP)

  • Vanessa Stoehr, Multi-scale Identities in a Transcultural Space: a Case-Study on the Influence of the European Environment on Identity-Building in Alsace (STR/GOE)

  • Kiril Zekin, The Transition of the Balkans into Southeastern Europe (GR/GOE)

  • IIke Fidan, How "Different" is European Power? A Test of Civllian and Soft Power Concepts in European Foreign Policy Using the Example of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GOE/GR)

  • Ioana-Alexandra Schiau, Post-Communist Consumer/Popular Culture in Romania. The Eternal Transition and its Cultural Effects (GOE/KR)

  • Gabriela Huk, Art in the Service of the Nation? Polish Contemporary Art and Nationalism (UP/GOE)

  • Kataryna Kawalek, European Union as a Normative Power in Sub-Saharan Africa. Between Expectations and Reality (KR/GOE)

  • Felix Lorenzen, Restricting South-North Movement. A Comparative Analysis of Regional Cooperation Efforts of the European Union and the United States (GOE/UP)

  • Simone Klee, What is 'European Culture'? A Discussion on the Construction and Understanding of the Concept in EU Official Discourse (GOE/UP)

  • Claudia Rehrs, The 'Shame of a Continent'. Stereotypes of the Roma and of Eastern Europe in the Western European Press prior to the EU Enlargement of 2004 (GOE/OL)

  • Emilie Dauphin, From the 'Baby-Boom Generation' to the 'Generation 1000 EURO'. A Comparison of Western European Student Movements 1968/2008 (GOE/UP)

  • Evelien A. A. Kingma, The European Union at the Human Rights Council. The Unity and Effectiveness of the Member States of the European Union (GR/GOE)

  • Thomas Bemmann, France and the German Reunification. Concealed Antagonism or Deliberate Acceptance? (GOE/GR)

  • Vera Podbornaya, The European Union and the Question of Democracy (GR/GOE)