Supervisors
Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf
Topics: Turkic- and Iranian-speaking Central Asia (history, folklore, and literature 12th to 20th century); Ottoman literature 12th to 16th century
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs
Topics: Islam in Southeast Asia; Transregional (political) Islam; Social movements/networks; Women living under Muslim Law(s)
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Topics: Anthropology of Religion and Religious Diversity; Medical Anthropology; Gender/Masculinities; Transnationalism and Migration; Eastern and Southern Africa
Available for supervision of new PhD students
PD Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Topics: Social and cultural history of the Arab world in the 19th and 20th centuries (Mashriq, Arabian Peninsula); urban history; the Arabian Peninsula in its Indian Ocean and Red Sea context
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Gharaibeh
Topics: Intellectual History
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits
Topics: History of the Balkans / Southeastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
Topics: Pre-modern Arabic literature (Classical Arabic, Middle Arabic, ...)
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Cilja Harders
Topics: current protests; local politics/politics from below; affect and emotion; regional focus on Maghreb, Mashreq, Gulf
Prof. Dr. Elke Shoghig Hartmann
Topics: Ottoman history of the 19th and 20th centuries
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Konrad Hirschler
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse
Topics: 19th and 20th century global history; history of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet space; religious and nationality policy in imperial space; Muslims of Eurasia, past and present; imperial law, legal pluralism
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz
Topics: Islamic normativity; Cultural Studies; Arab Gulf region; Turkey; material culture
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gudrun Krämer
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebelt
Topics: Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of the Body and the Senses, (Muslim) Fashion, (Post-)Secularism, Critical Race Studies, Middle Class Formations, Care
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Christian Mauder
Topics: Premodern Islamic religious, intellectual, social, and cultural history with a focus on the Mamluk Sultanate; Islamic court cultures; historical semantics; Arabophone Christianity and Christian-Muslim relations
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
PD Dr. Samuli Schielke
Topics: Migrations; social mobility; imagination and literature; visual anthropology; moral and religious lives; environment and political economy; regional focus on Arab Region (Egypt, Gulf states)
Currently only available as second supervisor for new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
Currently not available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Shabo Talay
Topics: Oriental Christianity (past and present); Syriac-Aramaic language and literature; Arabic oral literature
Available for supervision of new PhD students
Prof. Dr. Florian Zemmin
Topics: Religion and society in Islamic and Arab modern times and present; Islamic reformism; Middle Eastern conceptual history; sociology in Arab countries; theories of modernity and secularity
Available for supervision of new PhD students
