Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz
Geschäftsführende Direktorin
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Ethnologie
Studtstraße 21
D-48149 Münster
Tel.: +49 251 83-27312
Geschäftsführende Direktorin
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Institut für Ethnologie
Studtstraße 21
D-48149 Münster
Tel.: +49 251 83-27312
Sprechstunde im Wintersemester 2022/23:
nach Vereinbarung per e-mail
Kooperation mit Africa Globally Connected
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” (https://www.amazon.com/Political-Legitimacy-Postcolonial-Western-Africa/dp/184701268X), 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.
082879 |
Forschungskolloquium 03.04.23 - 10.07.23, Mo 10-12, STU 105 (2.10) |
082885 |
Institutscolloquium 14-täglich, 12.04.23 - 12.07.23, Mi 16-18, STU 105 (2.10) gemeinsam mit: Prof. Dr. Basu |
082882 |
Transcultural Encounters 03.04.23 - 10.07.23, Mo 14-16, STU 105 (2.10) |
082890 |
Colloquium 03.04.23 - 10.07.23, Mo 16-18, STU 105 (2.10) |
080887 |
Transatlantic Health and Healing in Kooperation mit: Helmar Kurz |
084872 | Forschungsfelder 14.04.21 - 19.05.21, Mi 12-14 02.06.21 - 21.07.21, Mi 12-14 geminsam mit: Prof. Dr. Basu und Prof. Dr. Timm |
084884 | Forschungskolloquium 12.04.21 - 17.05.21, Mo 14-16 31.05.21 - 19.07.21, Mo 14-16 |
084891 | Institutscolloquium 14-täglich, 14.04.21 - 19.05.21, Mi 16-18 14-täglich, 02.06.21 - 21.07.21, Mi 16-18 |
084892 | Writing a Project Proposal 12.04.21 - 17.05.21, Mo 16-18 31.05.21 - 19.07.21, Mo 16-18 |
084896 | Master- and PhD-Colloquium 12.04.21 - 17.05.21, Mo 14-16 31.05.21 - 19.07.21, Mo 14-16 |
082831 | Theorie und Geschichte der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie Mi 12-14, SCH 100.2 |
082881 | Institutscolloquium 04.11.20 - 10.02.21, Mi 16-18 |
082882 | Foundations of Empirical Research 02.11.20 - 08.02.21, Mo 16-18 |
082889 | Master- and PhD-Colloquium |
080884 | Forschungskolloquium |
080890 | Institutscolloquium |
080891 | Writing a Project Proposal |
080896 | Master- and PhD-Colloquium |
088820 |
Theorien, Begriffe und Methoden gemeinsam mit: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm |
088881 |
Institutskolloquium in Kooperation mit: Prof. Dr. Helene Basu |
088882 |
Foundations of Empirical Research |
088889 |
Master- and PhD-Colloquium |
2021 | Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali. Oxford: James Currey. |
2015 | (Hrsg., mit Ute Röschenthaler): Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa. London, New York: Routledge |
2012 | Muslims and New Media in West Africa. Pathways to God. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
2012 | Culture and Customs of Mali. Abc-Clio/ Greenwood Publishers, Santa Barbara, CA |
2012 | (Hrsg., mit Patrick Desplat) Prayer in the City. Muslim urban life and practices of sacred place making. Bielefeld: Transcript Publishers |
2010 |
(Hrsg., mit Jochen Seebode): Prisma und Spiegel. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Hamburg: Argument Publishers |
2001 | Perpetuating the Politics of Praise: Jeli praise singers, radios and political mediation in Mali. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag |
2021 | The hunter hype. Producing “local culture” and particularity in Mali.: in: Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John; Meiu, George (Hrsg.): Ethnicity, Commodity, In/corporation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 250-287. |
2021 | “Trusting is a Dicey Affair”.Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future-Making in Southwestern Uganda. In: Inghorn, Marica; Nancy Smith-Hefner (Hrsg.): Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage. Oxford, New York: Berghahn. |
2018 | Carving out a space for equal political citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda. In: Gräf, Bettina et al. (Hrsg.): Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies: Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer. Leiden: Brill, pp. 376-393. |
2016 | (mit S. Diallo) Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Mali. Journal of Religion in Africa 46: 219-250. |
2016 | Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World. Some Critical Reflections. In: Léon Buskens, Annemarie van Sandwijk (Hrsg.): Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 109-133. |
2016 | “Shari’a” as a moving target? The reconfiguration of national and regional fields of debate in Mali. in: Hefner, Robert (Hrsg.): Shari’a Law and Modern Ethics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. |
2016 | Between transnational and local aesthetic standards: beauty pageants in Mali. In: Röschenthaler, Ute; Mamadou Diawara (Hrsg.): Copyright Africa: How intellectuals property, media and markets transform immaterial cultural goods. Canon Pion: Sean Kingston |
2015 | Mediating authority. Media technologies and the Generation of Charismatic Appeal in Southern Mali. Culture and Religion. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14755610.2015.1058525 |
2015 | Mediale Klangräume als soziale Räume: Medienethnologische Überlegungen zur Untersuchung auditiver Medienpraxis. In: Bender, Cora; Martin Zillinger (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Medienethnographie. Berlin: Reimer. |
2014 | Transmitting Divine Grace. On the Materiality of Charismatic Mediation in Mali. In: Martin Zillinger et al. (Hrsg.): Trance Media and New Media. New York: Fordham Press. |
2013 | Engendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda. Journal of Religion in Africa 43: 396-425. |
2013 | What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda. Contemporary Islam 7(1): 53-70. |
2005 | Habilitation, Institut für Ethnologie, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (venia legendi für Ethnologie) |
1991 - 1996 | M. Phil. und Ph.D., Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology. Yale University. New Haven (USA) |
1990 | Magistra Artium in Ethnologie, Soziologie und Biologie an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
1984 - 1990 | Studium der Ethnologie, Soziologie und Biologie an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
seit 03.2018 | Professur (W3) für Ethnologie, Institut für Ethnologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster |
2008 - 2018 | Professur (W2) für Ethnologie, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität zu Köln |
2005 - 2008 | Assistenzprofessur, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) |
1997 - 2004 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Ethnologie, FU Berlin |
1996 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt am Main |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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) |
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 |