Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau

Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Field: History, South Asian Studies
Areas of research: Indian history (18th-20th century); history of modern Islam; historical semantics, comparative studies and translation studies, history of emotions
First supervisor of completed PhD projects:
Minority Pasts: The Other Histories of a "Muslim Locality", Rampur 1889-1949 (Razak Khan)
Geschichte als Widerstand. Das Libyan Studies Centre und die antikoloniale Neuschreibung der libyschen Nationalgeschichte (1978-2010) (Jakob Krais)
Social Stratification at a Muslim Qasbah in Colonial North India: Genealogy and Narrating the Past at Amroha (Soheb Niazi)
First supervisor of current PhD projects:
Entanglements of Print Culture and Trajectories of Community Formation: Mappila Muslims of Kerala, 1867-1956 (Muhammed Niyas Ashraf)
Bengali Muslims and Linguistic Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century (Deborshi Chakraborty)