Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
Ost- und Nordost-Afrika
Forschungsprojekt:
Sufi Fundamentalists: Al-Ahbash transnational Sufi network in Western Europe
Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
Post-Soviet countries, especially Ukraine and Russia
Aktuelles Forschungsgebiet:
Scholarly Ways. Mobility, Knowledge Production and Research Capacity Building Between Europe and the Middle East
Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
Arabische Welt, insbesondere Syrien; DDR
Forschungsprojekt:
"The History of German participation in the European colonial endeavor with a focus on India"
Regionaler Schwerpunkt:
Indien, Indischer Ozean
Forschungsprojekt:
Religion in Senegalese Laïcité: Enunciations of the Secular in the Colonial and Developmental State (1840-1980)