Research Foci
- Anthropology of Religion
- Mental health and spiritual wellbeing
- Political Anthropology
- Islam in Africa
- Gender Studies
- Anthropology of Media
CV
Academic Education
- Postdoctoral Degree (Habilitation), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (venia legendi for Anthropology)
- PhD Yale University, Dept. of Anthropology
- Study of Anthropology, Sociology and Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Master of Arts in Anthropology, Sociology and Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Study of Art History, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier (France)
Positions
- Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster
- Professor of Anthropology, Department of Cultural & Social Anthropology, Universität zu Köln
- Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA)
- Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
- M.Phil. and Ph.D., Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven (USA)
- Lecturer, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main
Honors
- Visiting Scholar – Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago (USA)
- Fellow, Center for African Studies – Harvard University (USA)
- Fellow – Berlin Graduate School „Muslim Cultures and Societies“ (USA)
- Visiting scholar – Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oslo (Norway)
- Teaching Prize – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universität zu Köln
- Fellow – Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)
- Frobenius Society’s Research Award – Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
External Functions
- Member, Selection Committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Scientific Member of the Steering Committee, Initiative of Excellence of the Universität zu Köln
- Member, African Studies Association Germany (VAD)
- Co-Editor, Series „Mande Worlds“ (Lit Verlag)
- Academic Director, Research and Teaching Unit „Media, Culture and Society“, Universität zu Köln
- Advisory Board, Series „Ethnographien“ (Konstanz University Press)
- Member, American Academy of Religions (AAR)
- Member, American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- Member, African Studies Association (ASA)
Projects
- EXC 2060 B3-48 - The role of social identities in interreligious arrangements: comparative perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1 - KFG 33: Access to cultural goods in digital change: art historical, curatorial, and ethical aspects ()
Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Centres for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences - EXC 2060 B3-20 - Testing and contesting religious pluralism in Uganda ()
Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1 - Cluster of Excellence 2060 - Religion and Politics: Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation ()
Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1 - Time and Artefact ()
Internally at the University of Münster Funded Project: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programmes - Ausarbeitung eines Antrages für einen Erasmus Mundus Joint Master mit der Universität Münster als Koordinator ()
Individual Granted Project: Erasmus Mundus Design Measures | Project Number: Ref. Ares(2023)6323689 - Cultures of Debate and Media in Transition ()
Internally at the University of Münster Funded Project: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programmes - Muslims as a religious minority in Uganda ()
Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: SCHU 1276/14-1
- EXC 2060 B3-48 - The role of social identities in interreligious arrangements: comparative perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa ()
Publications
- Schulz, D. (). Aspiration and activism: Muslim students’ efforts of future-making in Mbarara, Southwestern Uganda. in Sounaye, A., & Madore, F. (ed.), Afrikanische Studien/African Studies: Vol. 64. Religiosity on University Campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. (pp. 243–272). LIT Verlag.
- Schulz, D. (). Introduction: Rifle, Quill, Prayer Beads. Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali. Africa Today, 70 (1), 1–10.
- Schulz, D. E., & Diallo, S. (ed.), Africa Today, 2023/ 70 (1).
- Diallo, & and Dorothea E. Schulz, S. (). Fragments of Legitimacy: Symbolic Constructions of Political Leadership in Twenty-First Century Mali. Africa Today, 70 (1), 12–37. doi: 10.2979/at.2023.a905848.
- Schulz, D., & Diallo, S. (). Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali. in Stiles, E., & Akin, A. U. (ed.), Islamic Divorce in the 21th century. A Global Perspective (pp. 143–165). Rutgers University Press.
- Schulz, D. (). Media, the digital, and new connections. in Østebø, T. (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa (pp. 293–307). Routledge.
- Schulz, D. (). Religious practice and/ as future making in Africa: some cautionary remarks. in Greiner, C., & van Wolputte, S. B. (ed.), African Futures (pp. 47–55). Brill.
- Schulz, D. (). Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali. James Currey.
- Schulz, D. (). Introduction. Studying Muslim minorities in Subsaharan Africa. Preliminary Remarks. Islamic Africa, 12 (2), 173–185.
- Schulz, D. (). "Trusting is a Dicey Affair". Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future Making in Southwestern Uganda. in Inghorn, M., & Smith-Hefner, N. (ed.), Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage. (pp. 60–87). Berghahn Books.
- Schulz, D. (). The hunter hype. Producing "local culture" and particularity in Mali. in Meiu, G., Comaroff, J., & Comaroff, J. L. (ed.), Ethnicity, Commodity, In/corporation (pp. 168–194). Indiana University Press.
- Schulz, D. (). "Shari’a” as a moving target? The reconfiguration of national and regional fields of debate in Mali. in Hefner, R. (ed.), Shari’a Law and Modern Ethics (pp. 203–228). Indiana University Press.
- Schulz, D. (). Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World. Some Critical Reflections. in Buskens, L., & van Sandwijk, A. (ed.), Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities (pp. 109–133). Amsterdam University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsk97.9.
- Schulz, D., & Diallo, S. (). Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali. Journal of Religion in Africa, 46 (2-3), 219–250. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340085.
- Schulz, D., & Janson, M. (). Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa, 46 (2-3), 201–209. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340078.
- Röschenthaler, U., & Schulz, D. (ed.) (). Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa. Routledge.
- Schulz, D. (). 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, D. (). What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda. Contemporary Islam, 7 (1), 53–70. doi: 10.1007/s11562-013-0246-y.
- Schulz, D. (). (En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda. Journal of Religion in Africa, 43 (4), 396–425. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12341268.
- Schulz, D. (). Culture and Customs of Mali. Greenwood Publishers.
- Desplat, P. A., & Schulz, D. (ed.) (). Prayer in the City. The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life. Transcript Verlag.
- Schulz, D. (). Dis/embodying Authority: Female radio „preachers“ and the ambivalences of mass-mediated speech in Mali. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 44 (1), 23–43. doi: 10.1017/S0020743811001231.
- Schulz, D. (). Muslims and New Media in West Africa. Pathways to God. Indiana University Press.
- Schulz, D., & Seebode, J. (ed.) (). Spiegel und Prisma. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Argument Verlag.
- Schulz, D. (). Perpetuating the Politics of Praise. Jeli Singers, Radios, and Political Mediation in Mali. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.