Claudia Bruns has been Junior Professor of History of Science and Gender Studies at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory since 2007 and is a co-opted member of the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since March 2009, she also has been the Deputy Head of the »Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien« (Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
European cultural history of politics, history of transatlantic racism, Europe as reflected by the colonial mirror, Gender Studies / history of masculinity, youth emancipation movements, anti-Semitism / right-wing extremism, sexuality and medicine history, ethnic / new religious movements, methods and theories of culture history and theory.