Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag Director 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
Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse Vice Director 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.
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: Eurasian Borderlands, Past and 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. Anandita Bajpai Research Fellow 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
PD Dr. Katrin Bromber Head of Research Unit "Age and Generation" 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
Deepra Dandekar, PhD Research Fellow Email: Deepra.Dandekar(at)zmo.de Research project: Indian Ocean Retrotopia on the Western Indian Littoral Regional focus: India, Indian Ocean
Dr. Tobias Delfs Research Fellow 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