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: In Pursuit of Legality and Justice: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (also see the project-blog).

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

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-249 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.
Principal Investigator: Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War (CRAFTE)

Regional focus: South Asia, especially India; India–The German Democratic Republic–The Federal Republic of Germany entanglements

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

Email: johannes.becker(at)zmo.de

Current research: Migrant arrival contexts in transregional comparison. Local figurations and differing collective histories of Assyrians/Arameans in Germany and Jordan (DFG)

Research project: Global Qualitative Sociology Network (DFG-Network)

Research project: Light and Nocturnal-time: Materiality and Material Practices of Early Modern Nights in Mughal South Asia

Email: Sana.Chavoshian(at)zmo.de

Research project: "Soldiers and Sanctions: Generational Justice across and along Debris, Disaster and Displacement" (DFG)

Email: Martin.Christof-Fuechsle(at)zmo.de

Research project: "The History of German participation in the European colonial endeavor with a focus on India"

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

Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev

PD Dr. Johannes Becker

Dr. Amrita Chattopadhyay

Dr. Sana Chavoshian

Dr. Martin Christof-Füchsle