Doctoral Candidates
Alexandra Bauer
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Dr. Anita von Poser), Elsa-Neumann-Fellowship
Research on: "Lebensgeschichten multi-rassifizierter Frauen der koreanischen Nachfolgegenerationen in Deutschland"
Kathrin Bauer
by 1st Oct 2018: Research Associate and PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Research on: Diversity or Disfunction. Bio-social-cultural Influences on Life with ADHD (traits) in two Colombian Communities.
Julia Nina Baumann
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project: "Manouvering in Academic Cultures: The Ethnographer’s Emotional Labor in Greedy Institutions"
Leonie Benker
Doktorandin / Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. P. Ivanov)
Doctoral research on ": Zur Entstehung eines ‚post-postkolonialen‘ political imaginary in Uganda"
Giorgio Brocco
Doktorand / PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral research: "Trajectories of Albinism: Subjectivities, Experiences, and Narratives in Tanzania"
Lu Chen
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
PhD research on "The Moving Temples: A Study on the Religious Organizations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake"
Sara El-Dayekh
Doctoral canidate (prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Doctpral Research on "What do migrant divorcees in Germany cry about when they cry their divorce?Asensitive look at post-divorce loss(es) and disenfranchised grief"
Swalih Eratta Parambil
Doktorand/Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral reserach "Everyday Ethics: Life of Two Key Texts in the Islamic Everyday Life among Mapplias in Contemporary Kerala, South India"
Asli Gücin
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research on "Assimilation by Dispossession: Eco-Political Implications of Transforming the Sacred Nature of Dersim"
Sarah Hartmann
Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research: The Role of Islam in the Informal Education Sector - An Ethnographic Study of Private Tutoring Centers in Egypt
Anna Helfer
PhD candidate at Freie Universität/ Leibniz Institut Moderner Orient (Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse)
PhD Project "Recent debates on the idea of Negritude in Dakar's Contemporary Art: Appropriation and Demarcation Processes as an Artistic Strategy of a Decolonial Practice" (working title)
Leilani Hermiasih
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
PhD project „Råså in Java Today: Feeling through Learning/ Learning through Feeling Traditional Music as a Cosmopolitan Local“
Liese Hoffmann
Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer in Swahili
Doctoral Research: "Politics and Meanings of School in Post-Colonial, Coastal Kenya" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Brandaan Huigen
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger), DAAD-Fellowship
Doctoral research: "This is dangerous property: Crime and the social life of things in South Africa"
Susanne Jung
Research Assistant & Doctoral Candidate
Doctoral Research: "Sozialisation von Emotionen in einer indonesischen Gesellschaft" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Erin Kelso
by 1st April 2021: Research Associate and PhD Candidate (Dr. Jügen Schaflechner)
Reserach within VW project "The Populism of the Precarious: Marginalization, Mobilization, and Mediatization of South Asia's Religious Minorities"
Lotte Knote
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse)
Doctoral research: "A feminist political ecology of seaweed farming: gendered livelihood strategies in aquaculture in the Western Indian ocean"
Binyamin Lawal
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger); Förderung: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / DAAD
PhD Research on "Expansion of the Sacred into the Public Space: Spatial Contestation between Muslims and Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria"
Bin Li
Doktorand /Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Research on "Exploring the New Chinese Community in Japan: A Study of Ikebukuro’s Chinese Community"
Jingyi Li
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project "Belonging in Migration: Korean Chinese as International Laborers"
Kristina Mashimi (geb. Dohrn)
Doctoral Candidate & Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger) (on leave till 31 May 2021, substituted by Ursula Probst)
Doctoral Research: "Beyond Classrooms: Education and Ethics in Schools of the Gülen Movement in Urban Tanzania" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Simon Mutebi
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Funding: DAAD) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research (compl. 2020): "Subjective Experiences and Practices of Sexual Performance Concerns Among Young Men in Mwanza City, Tanzania"
Ursula Probst
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin (Vertretungsstelle) und Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Promotionsforschung: "Grauzonen der Freizügigkeit. Migration, kommerzialisierte Sexualität und (ost-)europäische Körper in Berlin"
Lauren Reid
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
DokPhD Project "Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in Thailand"
Martin Rönnau
Doktorand / doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: „Zwischen Geistern und Neuronen — zur spirituellen Kompetenz in der psychotherapeutischen Integration psychedelischer Erfahrungen"
Stephanie Salzhuber
Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Promotionsforschung: Das koloniale Erbe Mauritius - Prozesse der Be- und Entmächtigung der Kreolischen Community
Irina Savu Cristea
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project "Emotional regimes, personhood, and self-making practices among young women in North Bali – Pedagogies of self meet collaborative methodologies"
Janne von Seggern
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Dr. Anita von Poser), DAAD Scholarship
PhD Research: Adaptation to Climate Change from a Fijian Perspective: Local Negotiations of International Education Policies such as Education for Sustainable Development
Vanessa Pia von Stülpnagel
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Die (gem)einsame Arbeit an der Depression. Eine Ethnografie zum Krankheits- und Therapieerleben in der stationären Psychiatrie.
Svenja Wiebke Ursula Thornau
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project "Zwischen Stigmatisierung und disease comfort - Krankheitskonzepte und ihre Implikationen für Psychiatrieerfahrene"
Anitha Tingira
Doktorandin/Doct. candidate (DAAD) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research "Provision and Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Lalta Ward, Tanzania: Women's and Health Workers' Experiences"
Mechthild von Vacano
PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Doctoral Research: "Livelihoods, life conduct, subjectivities - a psychological-anthropological approach to work in Jakarta, Indonesia " (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Martin Wertenbruch
Doktorand (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: Was fühlst du? Geteilte Gefühle in einer 9. Gesamtschulklasse
