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Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse

Vice Director, Head of Research Unit "Religion and Intellectual Culture"

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-230
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
Research project: In Pursuit of Legality and Justice: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (also see the project-blog).
Research topic: Culture on Trial I: Russian Colonialism, Georgian Jews, and the Trans-local His- tory of Blood Libel, 1850–1914; Culture on Trial II: Everyday ‘Crime’ in Central Asia. The Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet States Dealing with Bride Kidnapping and the Payment of Bride Price, 1860–Present
Regional focus: Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus