Nadja-Christina Schneider

Professor
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

E-mail: Nadja-christina.schneider@hu-berlin.de

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Nadja Christina Schneider

Research Interests

  • // Media and Society
  • // Gender and Mobility Studies
  • // Urban Studies

Vita

Nadja-Christina Schneider is head of the department of South Asian Societies and Cultures which has replaced the cross-sectional department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asia Region (GAMS) in January 2025. As before, the focus in the department’s research, teaching and knowledge communication is on the areas of media culture, gender and urban research. In addition, the focus on diaspora, mobility and migration will continue to come to the fore. 

Since January 2025, Prof. Schneider is professor of South Asian Societies and Cultures at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Before that, she was professor of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asia Region (2017-2024). From 2009 to 2016, she was professor of media and society at the IAAW, also with a focus on Global South Asian Studies. She holds a PhD in South Asian Studies and her disciplinary background is in South Asian History and Societies, Modern and Contemporary History as well as Islamic Studies.

Selected Publications

  • // Nari Shakti and the Nation: Visual Imagery and Mediation of 'India's New Daughters' in the Framework of Muscular Patriotism. In: Fritzi-Marie Titzmann/Nadja-Christina Schneider (eds.) (2022). How to Live Together? Circulatory Practices and Contested Spaces in India.
  • // Why 'Living Together''? Introduction, Part One. In: Fritzi-Marie Titzmann/Nadja-Christina Schneider (eds.) (2022). How to Live Together? Circulatory Practices and Contested Spaces in India.
  • // "Heritage Diplomacy. The cultural policies of transregional infrastructure projects in Asia." RePLITO, March 2022.
  • // Special Article Collection: Imaginations, Narratives and Mediated Performances of Solidarity and Community, ed. by Nadja-Christina Schneider and Maitrayee Chaudhuri (2021). RePLITO digital knowledge archive & Doing Sociology. Berlin/Delhi.
  • // Repro-Dramas on Screen: Mediating Surrogacy, Split Motherhood and Reproductive Tourism in India to German Television Audiences.
  • // Present Absence of the 'Other Mother': Documentary Images and the Communicative Figuration Surrounding Gestational Surrogacy. In: Nadja-Christina Schneider and Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (eds.)(2020). Family Norms and Images in Transition. Contemporary Negotiations of Reproductive Labor, Love and Relationships in India. Nomos: Baden-Baden, pp. 33-53 and 55-74.
  • // Tea for Interreligious Harmony? Cause Marketing as a New Field of Experimentation with Visual Secularity in India. Working Paper Series/Multiple Secularities #20, Feb. 2020.
  • // Crossmedia Flows of Documentary Images and the Transnational Communicative Figuration Surrounding Gestational Surrogacy in India.
  • // Nadja-Christina Schneider/Carola Richter (eds.). New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World. Nomos/Bloomsbury, Baden-Baden 2015
  • // Nadja-Christina Schneider/Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (eds.). Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India: Focus on Sexual Violence, New (Im)Mobilities and Evolving Gender Identities. Reihe: Internationale und interkulturelle Kommunikation. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2014