The Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies is supported by the following organisational units of the University of Basel:

Faculty of Humanities:

Literature and Linguistics

• Department of German Studies
• Scandinavian Studies
• Department of English Studies
• Institute of French Literature and Linguistics
• Department of Slavic Studies
• Institute of Iberoromance Studies

Classical Studies

• Department of Classical Philology
• Department of Egyptology
• Classical Archaeology

Historical Studies

• Middle Ages and Renaissnche
• History of the Early Modern Era
• Modern History
• Eastern European History

Social Sciences

• Centre of Gender Studies
• Department of Culture Studies and European Ethnology
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Institute of Sociology

Philosophy and Media Studies

• Media Studies
• Philosophy

Art History and Musicology

• Art History
• Musicology

Imaging & Media LabCentre of African Studies

Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Humanities

• Department of Religion Studies
• Centre for Jewish Studies
• Theology

Faculty of Science

Environmental Studies

• Institute of Geography: Social Geography, Urban and Regional Studies
• Institute of Geography: Physical Geography and Environmental Change