Research Projects
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Ongoing Projects
| Research team | Project title | Duration |
Prof. Dr. Bettina Dennerlein |
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2021-2025 |
| Prof. Dr. Katrin Meyer | Demokratietheorie und Intersektionalität | |
| Prof. Dr. Bettina Dennerlein |
The Politics of Sexual Difference in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Thought |
Completed Projects
Dissertations at the Chair of Gender Studies and Islamic Studies
Ongoing Dissertations
| PhD Student | Project title | Duration |
| Dominik Folger | The Making of Women's Political Representation – Processes and Determinants of Shifting Power Dynamics in Tunisia and Morocco |
2021– |
| Sina Ritt | Art & Activism, Rap & Resistance: Articulations of Feminist Critique through Palestinian Rap | 2023– |
Completed Dissertations
| PhD Student | Project title | Completed in |
| Helena Rust | Cultivating Sex – Anthropology and Aesthetics in Arabic Sexual Science 1900–1940 | 2025 |
| Sarah Farag | Politics by Other Means. Frauenrechte, feministische Kritik und zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktivismus in Ägypten | 2019 |
| Ulrich Brandenburg | Japan und der Islam, 1890–1914. Zwischen globaler Kommunikation und panasiatischer Bewegung | 2018 |
Abgeschlossene Dissertationen im Doktoratsprogramm Gender Studies
| PhD student | Project title | discipline |
| Mirjam Aeschbach | Shaping the Boundaries of National Belonging: Muslim Women in Switzerland across German speaking Media Platforms |
Religious Studies |
| Sabine Binder | Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction - A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives |
English Literature |
| Ieva Bisigirskaitė | Choosing a Surname of Her Own: Non(Neo)-Traditional Femininities in Contemporary Lithuania |
Slavic Literature |
| Sarah Farag | Politics by Other Means. Frauenrechte, feministische Kritik und zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktivismus in Ägypten. |
Islamic Studies |
| Ayşe Zeynep Pamuk | Jenseits der nationalen Narrative. Ausstellungsräume zeitgenössischer türkischer Kunst als heterotopische Handlungsorte |
Art History |
| Helena Rust | Cultivating Sex - Anthropology and Aesthetics in Arabic Sexual Science, 1900-1940 |
Islamic Studies |
| Nina Seiler | Privatisierte Weiblichkeit: Genealogien und Einbettungsstrategien feministischer Kritik im postsozialistischen Polen |
Slavic Literature |