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Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz

Professorin der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie | Geschäftsführende Direktorin
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  • Forschung

    My research, publications, and teaching are centered on the Anthropology of Religion, of Mental Health and Spiritual Wellbeing, Political Anthropology, Islam in Africa, Gender Studies and Media Studies. I also bring to my research and teaching a strong background in critical theory, social theory, and the anthropology of social organization. I have extensive field research experience in West and East Africa, particularly in southern Mali and southwestern Uganda.
    In my new book “Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali”, I capitalize on my long-standing acquaintance with Malian politics and social history to make sense of the political crisis that has shaken the country for more than a decade. My analysis centers on the attitudes, judgments and practices by which inhabitants of a rural area in southwestern Mali attribute (or disclaim) the legitimacy of the state and of individual powerholders. I also draw on my earlier work on praise-singers – often referred to as "griots"– whose mass-mediated performances aimed to bestow praise and legitimacy on Mali’s changing political regimes, At the heart of this analytic endeavor is an effort to interrogate different dimensions, meanings and limits of political legitimacy in Mali.

    Since 2014, I have embarked on a research project that addresses questions pertaining to the broader thematic fields of religious pluralism and of spiritual and emotional well-being. Drawing on empirical research on Muslim minorities in two different regions of Uganda, I address the interplay between mental health, mourning, emotional coping, and future-making in a society haunted by traumatic experiences related to civil war. My analysis reaches beyond common approaches to „trauma“ through a sustained attention to the discursive and auditory practices and symbolic-aesthetic forms through which Muslims and Christians seek to achieve greater public prominence and to partake in debates over the ordering of moral and social life. By situating these dynamics in the broader context of Ugandan state politics, I explore points of articulations and tensions between local-level and national politics of religious difference, and between conflicting understandings of how past “trauma“ can be healed.

  • Forschungsschwerpunkte

    • Anthropology of Religion
    • Health and Well-being
    • Political Anthropology
    • Islam in Africa
    • Gender Studies
    • Media Anthropology
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  • Lehre

     

    • Publikationen

      Bücher

      Fachbücher (Monografien)
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali. London: James Currey.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Culture and Customs of Mali . Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Muslims and New Media in West Africa. Pathways to God. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Perpetuating the Politics of Praise. Jeli Singers, Radios, and Political Mediation in Mali. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
      Herausgegebene Bücher
      Fachbücher (Herausgegebene Bücher)
      • Röschenthaler, Ute; Schulz, Dorothea (Eds.): . Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa. New York: Routledge.
      • Desplat, Patrick A.; Schulz, Dorothea (Eds.): . Prayer in the City. The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
      Festschriften
      • Schulz, Dorothea; Seebode, Jochen (Eds.): . Spiegel und Prisma. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Hamburg: Argument Verlag.

      Artikel

      Forschungsartikel (Zeitschriften)
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘Introduction: Rifle, Quill, Prayer Beads. Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali.’ Africa Today 70, Nr. 1: 1–10.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘Introduction. Studying Muslim minorities in Subsaharan Africa. Preliminary Remarks.Islamic Africa 12, Nr. 2: 173–185.
      • Schulz, Dorothea; Diallo, Souleymane. . ‘Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali.’ Journal of Religion in Africa 46, Nr. 2-3: 219–250. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340085.
      • Schulz, Dorothea; Janson, Marloes. . ‘Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa.’ Journal of Religion in Africa 46, Nr. 2-3: 201–209. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340078.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘Mediating authority: Media Technologies and the Generation of Charismatic Appeal in Southern Mali.’ Culture and Religion 16: 125–145. doi: 10.1080/14755610.2015.1058525.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda.’ Contemporary Islam 7, Nr. 1: 53–70. doi: 10.1007/s11562-013-0246-y.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda.’ Journal of Religion in Africa 43, Nr. 4: 396–425. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12341268.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘Dis/embodying Authority: Female radio „preachers“ and the ambivalences of mass-mediated speech in Mali.’ International Journal of Middle East Studies 44, Nr. 1: 23–43. doi: 10.1017/S0020743811001231.
      Forschungsartikel (Buchbeiträge)
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘Aspiration and activism: Muslim students’ efforts of future-making in Mbarara, Southwestern Uganda.’ In Religiosity on University Campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. , edited by Sounaye, Abdoulaye; Madore, Frédérick, 243–272. Münster: LIT Verlag.
      • Schulz, Dorothea; Diallo, Souleymane. . Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali.’ In Islamic Divorce in the 21th century. A Global Perspective, edited by Stiles, Erin; Akin, Ayang Utriza, 143–165. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Media, the digital, and new connections. .’ In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa, edited by Østebø, Terja, 293–307. London, New York: Routledge.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Religious practice and/ as future making in Africa: some cautionary remarks.’ In African Futures, edited by Greiner, Clemens; van Wolputte, Steven, Bollig, Michael, 47–55. Leiden: Brill.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘"Trusting is a Dicey Affair". Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future Making in Southwestern Uganda.’ In Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage., edited by Inghorn, Marica; Smith-Hefner, Nancy, 60–87. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘The hunter hype. Producing "local culture" and particularity in Mali.’ In Ethnicity, Commodity, In/corporation, edited by Meiu, George; Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L., 168–194. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . ‘"Shari’a” as a moving target? The reconfiguration of national and regional fields of debate in Mali.’ In Shari’a Law and Modern Ethics, edited by Hefner, Robert, 203–228. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
      • Schulz, Dorothea. . Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World. Some Critical Reflections.’ In Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities, edited by Buskens, L.; van Sandwijk, A., 109–133. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press . doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsk97.9.
  • Stipendien und Auszeichnungen

    2016 Fellow, Center for AFrican Studies - Harvard University (USA)
    2011 Fellow, Berlin Graduate School "Muslim CUltures and Societes" (USA)
    2010 Lehrpreis, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität zu Köln
    2010 Visiting scholar, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oslo (Norwegen)
    2005 Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)
    2000 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of ANthropology. University of Chicago (USA)
    1996 Frobenius Forschungsförderungspreis - Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
  • Ämter und Funktionen

    Seit 2006 Mitherausgeberin der Reihe “Mande Studies”, Lit Verlag
    Seit 2015 Mitherausgeberin der Reihe “Ethnographien”, Konstanz University Press
    Seit 2015 Fachreferentin (Ethnologie und Islamwissenschaften), Auswahlkommission Forschungsstipendien der Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung
    Seit 2019 Mitglied im Senats- und Bewilligungsausschuss für Graduiertenschulen, DFG
    Seit 2019 Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
  • Aktuelle Projekte / Forschung - (Drittmittelförderung)

    EXC 2060 B3-20 - Testing and contesting religious pluralism in Uganda (2019 - 2025)
    Drittmittel: DFG - Exzellenzcluster - Förderkennzeichnen: EXC 2060/1

    Die auditive Herstellung von muslimischer Gemeinschaft in Uganda (2019 - 2020)
    Drittmittel: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelfördrung - Förderkennzeichnen: SCHU 1276/14 -1

    Projecting Futures: Resource use conflict, intergenerational tensions, and competing visions of future-making in the Rift Valley, Kenya;
    Drittmittel DFG, Teilprojekt im SFB „Future Rural Africa“ (Köln/ Bonn) (2018-2022)
  • Abgeschlossene Projekte (Drittmittelförderung)

    2011-2016 2 Förderungsperioden: DFG FOR 1501, “Mediality and local creativity in the negotiation of social-ecological resilience, collapse, and reorganization”, Teilprojekt im Rahmen der Forschergruppe “Resilience, Collapse, and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems in Africa’s Savannahs”
    2011-2016 2 Förderungsperioden: DFG SCHU 1276-10/1-2: „Mediale Ausgestaltung translokaler sozialer Räume durch westafrikanische MigrantInnen in Europa“
    2012-2015  DFG SCHU 1276-11/1: Migrationsentwürfe immobiler Akteure. Erwartungen, Diskurse und Praktiken männlicher Jugendlicher in der Hafenstadt Mahajanga / Madagaskar