Research Fellows

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

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.

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)30-80307-221 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

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

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

Email: Sana.Chavoshian(at)zmo.de

Email: Deepra.Dandekar(at)zmo.de

Research project: Indian Ocean Retrotopia on the Western Indian Littoral

Regional focus: India, Indian Ocean

Email: tobias.delfs(at)hu-berlin.de

Research project: Colonial Deviance in the 18th Century in a Global Historical Perspective. The Example of the Danish-English-Halle India Missionary Lambert Christian Früchtenicht (1772–1806?)

Regional focus: India

Email: rakiya.elMatine(at)zmo.de

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Research Fellows

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag

Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse

PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse

Dr. Hilal Alkan

Dr. Anandita Bajpai

PD Dr. Katrin Bromber

Dr. Sana Chavoshian

Deepra Dandekar, PhD

Dr. Tobias Delfs

Rakiya El Matine