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

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

Email: Deepra.Dandekar(at)zmo.de

Research project: Indian Ocean Retrotopia on the Western Indian Littoral

Regional focus: India, Indian Ocean

Email: rakiya.elMatine(at)zmo.de

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-117 Email: malte.fuhrmann(at)zmo.de

Current research: Developmentality in Southeastern Europe: The Evolution of Developmental Discourse in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Debate on Traffic Infrastructure (1908-1989)

Regional focus: Eastern Mediterranean; Southeast Europe; Habsburg, Ottoman, and German Empires and their successor states

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

Rakiya El Matine

Dr. Malte Fuhrmann