Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag Director Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0 Email: zmo(at)zmo.de Research project: History of Saudi Arabia in translocal perspective Regional focus: Arab countries (notably Arabian Peninsula and Bilād al-Shām), Indian Ocean
Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse Vice Director Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-230 Email: Kai.Kresse(at)zmo.de Research project: Contested Knowledge, Sociality, and Religion: Intellectual Culture Under Postcolonial Conditions on the Swahili Coast and Beyond Regional focus: Africa, especially East Africa and the Swahili coast, also to Southern Africa; transregional connections, especially across the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world; open for projects to all regions.
PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-220 E Email: Stefan.Kirmse(at)zmo.de Research project: In Pursuit of Legality and Justice: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (also see the project-blog). Regional focus: Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus
Dr. Hilal Alkan Research Fellow Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-221 Email: hilal.alkan.zeybek(at)zmo.de Research project: In the Company of Plants: Multispecies care and migrant home-making in Germany DFG Project Number: 458661090 Regional focus: Middle East and Europe, particularly Turkey, Syria and Germany
Dr. Anandita Bajpai Research Fellow Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-249 Email: Anandita.Bajpai(at)zmo.de Research project: Entangled Wavelengths. Translocal Affect and Affiliation Among Radio Broadcasters and Listeners of German International Radio Stations in Cold War India, 1964–1990 Project Manager: Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE) Regional focus: South Asia, especially India; India–The German Democratic Republic–The Federal Republic of Germany entanglements
Dr. Johannes Becker Research Fellow Email: johannes.becker(at)zmo.de Research project: Migrant arrival contexts in transregional comparison. Local figurations and differing collective histories of Assyrians/Arameans in Germany and Jordan
Dr. Martin Christof-Füchsle Email: Martin.Christof-Fuechsle(at)zmo.de Research project: "The History of German participation in the European colonial endeavor with a focus on India"
Saidolimkhon Gaziev Research Fellow Email: Said.Gaziev(at)zmo.de Research project: In Pursuit of ‘Legality’ and ‘Justice’. Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (JUSTIMINO)