Research Fellows

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0 Email: zmo(at)zmo.de

Research project: Translocal Cultural History of Saudi Arabia in the 20th Century

Regional focus: Arab countries (notably Arabian Peninsula and Bilād al-Shām), Indian Ocean

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-230 Email: Kai.Kresse(at)zmo.de

Research project: Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience; African Intellectual Cultures; Anthropology in Transregional Studies.

Regional focus: Africa, especially East Africa and the Swahili coast, also Southern Africa; transregional connections, especially in the Indian Ocean; Muslim world

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-220 E Email: Stefan.Kirmse(at)zmo.de

Research project: Eurasian Borderlands, Past and Present

Regional focus: Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-104 Email: Philipp.Liegmann(at)zmo.de

Regional focus: Arab world, especially Egypt; Iran

Email: adejokeiyabadan(at)gmail.com

Research project: Religiosity and Higher Education at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1948–2010 (Remoboko, Leibniz-Competition)

Regional focus: West Africa, Nigeria

Email: Anandita.Bajpai(at)zmo.de

Research project: Entangled Wavelengths. Translocal Aff ect and Affi liation Among Radio Broadcasters and Listeners of German International Radio Stations in Cold War India, 1964-1990

Regional focus: South Asia, especially India; India–The German Democratic Republic–The Federal Republic of Germany entanglements

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-237 Email: Katrin.Bromber(at)zmo.de

Research project: Veterans, Volunteers and Welfare in Colonial and Postcolonial East Africa

Regional focus: East- and Northeast Africa

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-144 Email: ali.dogan(at)zmo.de

Research project: Intelligence Agencies as Preservers of Raison d'État. Comparison and Analysis of Collaboration between the Bundesnachrichtendienst and Jihaz Al-Mukhabarat Al-Amma from 1969–1990

Regional focus: Middle East

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-238 Email: Vincent.Favier(at)zmo.de

Research project: Religion, Morality and Boko in West Africa: Students Training for a Good Life (Remoboko) (Leibniz-Competition)

Regional focus: West Africa (Niger & Nigeria)

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-113 Email: veronica.ferreri(at)zmo.de

Research project: Paper Trails and Dislocated Bureaucracies (BMBF)

Regional focus: Arab world, especially Syria

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag

Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse

PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse

Philipp Liegmann

Adéjoké Rafiat Adétòrò

Dr. Anandita Bajpai

PD Dr. Katrin Bromber

Ali Dogan

Vincent Favier

Dr. Veronica Ferreri