Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Director
Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0
Email: zmo(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Regional focus:
Arab countries (notably Arabian Peninsula and Bilād al-Shām), Indian Ocean
Sort:
Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse
Vice Director, Head of Research Unit "Religion and Intellectual Culture"
Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-230
Email: Kai.Kresse(at)zmo.de
Research project:
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).
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
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. Mehdi Ayachi
Research Fellow
Email: mehdi.ayachi(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Regional focus:
Arabian Peninsula and notably the Sultanate of Oman
Dr. Anandita Bajpai
Research Fellow
Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-249
Email: Anandita.Bajpai(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Principal Investigator: Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE);
Individual Project: Entangled Wavelengths: International Radio Broadcasters & their Afro-Asian Listening Publics
Regional focus:
South Asia, especially India; India–The German Democratic Republic–The Federal Republic of Germany entanglements
Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev
Research Fellow
Email: Akmal.Bazarbaev(at)zmo.de
Research project:
"Internal Labour Migration in Central Asia, 1870-1917: Social Drivers and Government Impediments to Movement" (AvH)
Regional focus:
Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan
PD Dr. Johannes Becker
Research Fellow
Email: johannes.becker(at)zmo.de
Current research:
Global Qualitative Sociology Network (DFG-Network)