• Cultural anthropology of sound
• Mediology of audio media
• Sound in popular culture

Holger Schulze (*1970) is visiting professor for sound studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft and associate professor (Privatdozent) at the Universität der Künste Berlin, MA-programme in Sound Studies and a guest resercher at the Nordic Research Network for Sound Studies. He is associated investigator in the cluster of excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung: an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and founding member of the European Sound Studies Association. Recently he published the third and final volume of his Theorie der Werkgenese, a generative theory of artifacts: Das aleatorische Spiel (2000) − Heuristik (2005) − Intimität und Medialität (2012). 2000-2009 he was one of the co-founders of the new MA-programme in Sound Studies  at the Universität der Künste Berlin and from 2006 on he was the first head of department & visiting professor for anthropology & ecology of sound. He was visiting professor at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo as well as lecturer at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität in Innsbruck. He founded the research network Sound in Media Culture in 2010, the bookseries Sound Studies in 2008, and he is co-editor of the international Journal for historical anthropology Paragrana since 2011. He writes for TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Positionen, de:bug and serves as curator for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin.

• Intimität und Medialität. Tektonik der Medien - Theorie der Werkgenese, Bd. 3, AVINUS Verlag Berlin 2012
• Gespür – Empfindung – Kleine Wahrnehmungen. Klanganthropologische Studien. transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2012 (Sound Studies Volume 3)
• Sound Studies: Traditionen – Methoden – Desiderate. Eine Einführung. transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2008 (Sound Studies Volume 1)