Viola Georgi

Project Co-ordinator

georgi@tolerance-net.org

Viola Beatrix Georgi is the co-ordinator of the "International Network Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance" at the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

She studied English, Fine Arts and Politics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt where she acquired a teaching degree in 1992. In 1990/91 she spent an academic year at the University of Bristol in Great Britain.

Back to Germany she studied towards a master degree in Education and Sociology which she completed in 1995. In 1996 she received a DAAD-scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service) to do research for her doctoral thesis on "Historical Consciousness in the German Immigrant Society" at Harvard University (Cambridge, USA).

From 1996 to 1998 she worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt . In 1998 she did comparative research on multiculturalism and immigration policies in Europe and the United States at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. In spring 1999 she received a Ph.D.- grant by the State of Hesse.

Her major research interests include: Sociology of Education and Migration, Holocaust Studies, Cultural Studies and Intercultural Education, Theories of Multiculturalism, Jewish Studies, Anti-Semitism, Racism, Political Extremism, Youth, Minorities, Religious Pluralism.

1989 - 1992
Research assistant in a project on early language learning and intercultural education
Early is Easy, Berta Heraeus Foundation, Hanau

1990 - 1991
Research assistant in an educational program by the German-French Youth Organisation on the issue of Citizenship-Education in Europe

1992 - 1993
Research assistant for a project on bilingual and multilingual education, Institute for English- and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt

1993 - 1996
Project-Co-ordinator for the International Academic Exchange Program ERASMUS/SOKRATES at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Frankfurt

1994
Research assistant in the project: The Dimensions of Citizenship in Israel and Germany. University of Frankfurt and Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel

1994
Internship and free journalistic work for the public radio Frankfurt (Hessischer Rundfunk)

Since 1994
Free lance educator at the Fritz Bauer-Institute (Holocaust Study and Research Center) in Frankfurt
Projects: Program Development, School Research, Teacher-Training and Projects on Holocaust-Studies

1994 - 1995
Research internship at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Project: Political Extremism

1995
Interviewer for the Steven Spielberg-Video-Archive-Project Survivors of the Shoah Visual History

1996
Internship at the Facing History and Ourselves Institute in Boston, USASince 1997
Member of the board of the Anne Frank Youth Center in Frankfurt

1999
Co-ordinator of the International Summerprogram on the Holocaust.
St. Mary's College, Maryland (USA) and Institute for Comparative History Research (Berlin)

The Origins of Racism; History and Migration; Perspectives on Intercultural Education in Germany; The Notions of Citizenship in Europe; Young Migrants in Germany and the History of Nationalsocialism; Holocaust Education in Germany and the USA; The History of Migration and Minorities in Germany; Jewish immigrant in Germany; Qualitative Social Research; Biography-Research; Historical Identities in Immigrant Societies; Aspects of Multiculturalism in Germany; Perspectives on the Development of Youth Culture in Germany; Models of Multicultural Societies; etc.

"Migrantenjugendliche und NS-Geschichte", in: Doron Kiesel und Ernst Karpf (Hrsg.): Pädagogik der Erinnerung. Frankfurt/M. 1997.

"Soziale Integration und Motivlagen von Migranten", in: Ursula Apitzsch, Regina Kreide, Viola Georgi (Hrsg.): Integration von Migranten in den sozialen Sphären Arbeit und Erziehungswesen. Frankfurt/M 1997.

"Zur Vielfalt multikultureller Gesellschaftsentwürfe" in Doron Kiesel u.a. (Hrsg.): Die Erfindung der Fremdheit. Frankfurt 1999.

"Wem gehört deutsche Geschichte? Bikulturelle Jugendliche und die Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus", in; Bernd Fechler, Gottfried Köhler, Till Lieberz-Groß (Hrsg.) "Erziehung nach Auschwitz" in der multikulturellen Gesellschaft, Weinheim 2000.