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: 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; transregional connections, especially across the Indian Ocean and the Muslim world; also to Southern Africa.

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

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

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 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

Email: Sana.Chavoshian(at)zmo.de

Research project: Soldiers and Sanctions: Generational Justice across and along Debris, Disaster and Displacement

Email: Deepra.Dandekar(at)zmo.de

Research project: Indian Ocean Retrotopia on the Western Indian Littoral

Regional focus: India, Indian Ocean

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

Research project: The Exceptional Remit of Intelligence Agencies – Germany’s and Iraq’s Foreign Intelligence Services During the Cold War.

Regional focus: Gulf States and Iraq

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Research Fellows

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag

Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse

PD Dr. Stefan B. Kirmse

Adéjoké Rafiat Adétòrò

Dr. Hilal Alkan

Dr. Anandita Bajpai

PD Dr. Katrin Bromber

Dr. Sana Chavoshian

Deepra Dandekar, PhD

Ali Dogan