Former Employees

>> Administrative Office

Photo Dr. Sarah Thieme
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Dr. Sarah Thieme

Dr. Sarah Thieme was a Research Associate in the office of the Centre for Religion and Modernity at the University of Münster from January 2021 to May 2023. Since June 2023, Dr. Sarah Thieme has been Managing Director of the Rectorate Research Council at Münster University.

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Sigrun Fels

Sigrun Fels worked in the secretariat at the Center for Religion and Modernity at the University of Münster from April 2022 to September 2023.

>> Graduate School RePliR

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Dr. Anna Klie

From January 2017 to May 2020, Anna Wiebke Klie was a doctoral student in the Graduate School RePliR.

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Dr. Martina Loth

Martina Loth was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation project on the religious identity of young Alevis and Sunnis.

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Dr. Natalie Powroznik

Natalie Powroznik was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR with a thesis von religion in refugee shelters.

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Dr. David Rüschenschmidt

David Rüschenschmidt was a doctoral student in the interdisziplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation projekt on the history of Christian-Islamic dialog in North Rhine-Westphalia as part of his doctoral project.

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Dr. Mathias Schneider

Mathias Schneider was a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Graduate School RePliR from 2016 to 2020 with a dissertation project on the topic of "Buddhist Interpretations of Jesus".

>> The Pope's Legions

Prof. Dr. Mariano Barbato
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Prof. Dr Mariano Barbato

Mariano Barbaot was DFG Heisenberg Fellow and Principal Investigator of the project "The legions of the pope: A case study of social and political transformation”.

Johannes Löffler
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Dr. Johannes Löffler

Johannes Ludwig Löffler was a doctoral student in the The Pope's Legions from 2016 to 2022 with a dissertation project on the Communication Strategies of Pope Francis in the Political Public Sphere.

>> Research Fellow

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Dr. Giulia Marotta

Giulia Marotta was a Research Fellow (WiRe Fellowship Programs and WWU Fellowship) from 2018 to 2019. During her stay at CRM, she focused on the historiography of the modernist crisis within the Catholic Church (1893-1910).