Academic Advisory Board

The Academic Advisory Board, which comprises eight internationally renowned scholars representing the most important disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence, meets at least once a year. It supports the research conducted in the research network, and makes recommendations for further work.

Members of the Academic Advisory Board (2019-2025):

• Prof. Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh (2019–2022)
  Islamic Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
• Prof. Dr. Fenella Fleischmann
  Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Prof. Dr. Eilert Herms (2019–2023)
  Protestant Theology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
• Prof. Dr. Elisa Klapheck
  Jewish Studies, University of Paderborn
• Prof. Dr. Hugh McLeod
  Church History, University of Birmingham, Great Britain
• Prof. Dr. Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern History, University of Oxford, Great Britain
• Prof. Dr. Sarah Stroumsa
  Arabic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 
• Prof. Dr. Jayne Svenungsson
  Systematic Theology, Lund University, Sweden
• Prof. Dr. John C. Torpey
  Political Science and Sociology, City University of New York, USA
• Prof. Dr. Linda Woodhead (2019–2021)
  Sociology of Religion, King's College London, Great Britain
• Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann
  Law, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

Members of the previous Academic Advisory Board (2012-2017):

• Prof. Dr. Aziz Al-Azmeh,
  Islamic Studies, Central European University Budapest, Hungary
• Prof. em. Dr. Gerhard Dilcher,
  Law, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main
• Prof. em. Dr. Jörg Jeremias,
  Protestant Theology, Philipps University of Marburg
• Prof. Dr. Hans Joas,
  Sociology, Ernst Troeltsch Professor for Sociology of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University Berlin
• Prof. Dr. oec. DDr. h.c. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann,
  Sociology, University of Bielefeld
• Prof. Dr. Rosamond McKitterick,
  Early Modern History, University of Cambridge, Great Britain
• Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhard,
  Early Modern History, University of Freiburg
• Prof. Dr. Lyndal Roper,
  Early Modern History, University of Oxford, Great Britain

 

Members of the first Academic Advisory Board (2007-2012):

• Prof. Dr. José Casanova,
  Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgetown University
• Prof. em. Dr. Gerhard Dilcher,
  Department of Law, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
• Prof. Dr. Abdellah Hammoudi,
  Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA
• Prof. em. Dr. Jörg Jeremias,
  Department of Protestant Theology, Philipps University of Marburg
• Dr.theol. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Cardinal Walter Kasper,
  President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican
• Prof. Dr. oec. DDr. h.c. Franz-Xaver Kaufmann,
  Department of Sociology,  University of Bielefeld
• Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhard,
  Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt