Universität Münster > Religion & Politics

DoktorandIn	Dissertationstitel	BetreuerIn	MentorIn	Hauptfach
Amodio, Daniela Maria	Transformationsprozesse der Ikonen-Tradition im frühen russischen und sowjetischen Film	Prof. Dr. Irina Wutsdorff	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Slavistik
Arnkens, Julia	The Religious Landscape of Upper Mesopotamia (2. cent. BC - 3. cent. AD)	Prof. Dr. Engelbert Winter	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Classical Archaeology
Below, Ruben	n.n.	Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Sociology
Blundell, Anna Maj	The Meaning of Existential Commitments for Personal Identity	Prof. Dr. Michael Quante	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Philosophy
Derichs, Jonas	Cult Places in Hellenistic and Roman Ephesos (3rd cent. BCE – 4th cent. CE): A Case Study on Urban Growth and Religious Change	Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Ender, Nikolas	The “newly baptized” in the Tsarist empire of the 18th and early 19th century	Prof. Dr. Ricarda Vulpius	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Eastern European History
Engelhardt, Lucienne	Religion and Polarisation	Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Political Science
Farkhari, Fahima	n.n.	Prof. Dr. Mitja Back	Prof. Dr. Fahima Farkhari	Psychology
Fischer, Jens Georg	Poetry and politics. Arabic Panegyric Poetry as a Medium of Political Communication in the Post-Seljuk Middle East	Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Arabic and Islamic Studies
Fockenbrock, Katharina	Concepts of Overcoming Violence and Peace in the Hebrew Bible Based on the Book of Psalms	Prof. Dr. Johannes Schnocks	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Catholic Theology
Haake, Anna-Sophie	Power and Image. Pyrrhus of Epirus and His Strategies of Representation	Prof. Dr. Peter Funke	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Hartmann, Maria Teresa	Talmud Parodies in Twentieth-Century America	Prof. Dr. Regina Grundmann	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Jewish Studies
Haupt, Marie Lisann	The dogmatics of fundamental rights in the context of the right to information of the press	Prof. Dr. Fabian Wittreck	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Law
Hillenbrand, Carolin	Religion as Bridge or Barrier? The Role of Religion in Social Cohesion from an Empirical Cross-Country Perspective	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Hohmann, Uta Elisabeth	Protestant Theologians as Members of Parliament	Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Protestant Theology
Kleybolte, Franziska	"Thrown to the Ground." The Chrisitan Appropriation, Destruction and Conversion of Synagogues in Iberia between the 14th and 16th Centuries	Prof. Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Mediaeval History
Koj, Nicolas	n.n.	Prof. Dr. Michael Quante	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Philosophy
Klinkenborg, Hannah	Religion as a Ressource in European Climate Governance	Prof. Dr. Doris Fuchs	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Political Science
Laßen, Arne	Muslim Practices in Educational Establishments in Germany and the Social Arrangements Concerning These Practices	Prof. Dr. Levent Tezcan	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Mildner, Verena Susanne	"Westdeutscher Protestantismus und Nahostkonflikt. Eine Untersuchung theologischer und politischer Deutungsmuster 1967–1989	Prof.Dr. Albrecht Beutel	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Church History
Müller, Friederike		Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner		Sociology
Neitmann, Florian	Law und Judgement in Fourth Ezra und Second Baruch	Prof. Dr. Lutz Doering	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Protestant Theology
Pachurka, Manuel	Ascetism and Culture	Prof. Dr. Levent Tezcan	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Poeschel, Hildegard	Deathscapes in the Eastern Mediterrean: Places of Memory and their Exploitation for Political Purposes	Prof. Dr. Michael Grünbart	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Byzantine Studies
Porada, Chiara	Correlations Between Values Concerning the Common Good and Religiosity	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Pulpanek, Hanna Clara	Nathan's Hate. On the Reception of Lessing's Nathan the Wise in the Contemporary Drama	Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	German Philology
Selent, Maximilian	Religious organizations as political actors during the asylum crisis in Germany, France and Great Britain	Prof. Dr. Matthias Kortmann (TU Dortmund)	Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner	Political Science
Weber, Charlotte	Discourses on Gender, Sexuality, and Family in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	PD Dr. Felicity Jensz	Political Science

Mentor	Project	Major Subject
Gärtner, Christel,Prof. Dr.	B3-16 Transfer, breakup and new formation of religion. A study with three-generation families	Religious Sociology
Jensz, Felicity, PD Dr.	A3-2 „Wir fordern unsere Kolonien zurück“: Religious (Dis)entanglements between Germany and her overseas (ex) colonies	Modern History
Schmitt, Rüdiger, Prof. Dr.	B3-3 Conflict and Ritual in the Hebrew Bible and its Ancient Near Eastern Environment	Early History, Protestant Theology

Doctoral Students (Second funding period 2012 to 2017)

Doctoral Student	Project	Supervisor	Mentor	Major Subject
Aletsee, Anna-Sophie, M.Ed.	‘The victorious king’ in the sanctuary – strategies of staging military successes in the Greek memory landscape of the Hellenistic age	Prof. Dr. Peter Funke	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Amroune, Amina	Malikitische Rechtsgeschichte im islamischen Westen am Beispiel von Fatwasammlungen des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts	Prof. Dr. Norbert Oberauer	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Bigalke, Fridtjof	Herrschersakralität. Poetische Entwürfe in der Literatur des Mittelalters	Prof. Dr. Bruno Quast	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	German Philology
Brunner, Benedikt, M. A.	C2-8 Neue Soziale Bewegungen und religiöse Sozialformen in der Nachmoderne: ein deutsch-nordamerikanischer Vergleich	Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	History
Bunte, Martin, M. A.	A2-11 Der Einfluss des Platonismus im Kontext der Normbegründung des Deutschen Idealismus und des Naturrechts	Prof. Dr. Walter Mesch	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Philosophy
Coldwell, Philipp	Katholische Einflüsse auf das Wirtschaftsrecht der frühen Bundesrepublik	Prof. Dr. Matthias Casper	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Law
Dahlmann, Alissa, M. A.	D2-4 Martyrium und Martyriumsdiskurse im 4. Jh. n. Chr.	Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Dölecke, Alexander	A2-2 Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit und Aussöhnung in historischen Schuldkonstellationen	Prof. Dr. Michael Beintker	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Protestant Theology
Drauschke, Marie, M. A.	Investigations into the installation practice of inter-state documents in Greek sanctuaries	Prof. Dr. Peter Funke	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Hoffmann, Tobias, M. A.	C2-4 Monarchical Rule and Religious Community-Building	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Drews	PD Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Medieval History
Hreinsson, Haraldur, MTS	The Christian Empire Goes North. A Critical Study of Iceland’s Earliest Christian Literature	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Drews	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Medieval History
Isani, Mujtaba Ali, M. A.	Islam and International Organizations: Can Muslims Become Part of a Universal World Order?	Prof. Dr. Bernd Schlipphak	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Political Science
Khan, Nadeem, M. A.	Nūr ad-Dīn und die sunnitischen Gelehrten von Damaskus	Prof. Dr. Wolfram Drews	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Medieval History
Kleine, Marie, M. Ed.	Teilprojekt zur Bedeutung von Kaiser Julian für die Märtyrerverehrung des 4. Jahrhunderts	Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Kurschat, Andreas, M. A.	A2-16 Religiöse Traditionen der Kapitalismuskritik in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert	Prof. Dr. Hans-Richard Reuter	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	German Philology, Protestant Theology
Lepke, Andrew	B2-21 Politics in Cult Performance – Religious Services in Politics: The Sacred Laws (leges sacrae) of the Greek City-States as a Source of Awareness of Religious-Political Interdependence in Antiquit	Prof. Dr. Klaus Zimmermann	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Mai, Johanna Judith, LL.M.(NUS)	A2-27 The Organisation of Religion	Prof. Dr. Hinnerk Wißmann	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Law
Maskow, Lars	C2-1 Religious Politics in Ancient Persia: Cultural-Comparative and Legal-Historical Investigations of the Situation of the Jews in the Multi-Religious Society of the Achaemenid Period	Prof. Dr. Reinhard Achenbach	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Protestant Theology
Meuth, Anna-Maria, M. A.	Wertgebundene Interessenvertretung in der Öffentlickheit am Beispiel religiöser Akteure	Prof. Dr. Christiane Frantz	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Political Science
Meyer, Thomas	Verantwortung und Verursachung in Hegels Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts	Prof. Dr. Michael Quante	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Philosophy
Möllenbeck, Christin, M. A.	Institutional slavery – utilising serf labour in the cultic-religious and politico-administrative institutions of the Old Babylonian Period	Prof. Dr. Hans Neumann	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Philology of the Ancient Orient
Motzigkeit, Denise	C2-10 Kritik von innen. Modelle sozialen Wandels in der katholischen Kirche	Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Social Ethic
Müller, Silke, M. A.	Santa Muerte: Leben für den Tod. Religionssoziologische Betrachtungen zu organisierter Kriminalität in Mexiko	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Müller-Siegwardt, Jana, M.A.	Das Schicksal paganer Heiligtümer im spätantiken Osten	Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Ancient History
Pande, Mrinal	Staging Hinduism: Transnational Performances of Hindu Texts. A case study of Morari Bapu’s Ramkatha	Prof. Dr. Helene Basu	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Ethnology
Pattin, Sebastian, MSSc	God’s intellectuals. The Catholic press and politics in Argentina: Criterio 1955-1976	Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Modern History
Pieper, Lennart, M. A.	Dynastiebildung und Konfession. Zum Zusammenhang von konfessioneller Neuausrichtung und dynastischen Konzeptionen bei protestantischen Reichsgrafenfamilien im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Early Modern History
Prief, Yvonne	Institutionen des islamischen Rechts in Europa: Islamische Mediation und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit in Großbritannien	Prof. Dr. Norbert Oberauer	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Islamic Studies
Salo, Reettakaisa Sofia, MTh	Rezeptionen neuassyrischer Religionskonzepte in der Jerusalemer Tempeltheologie	Prof. Dr. Reinhard Achenbach	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Protestant Theology
Sami, Ahmed, M. A.	C2-9 Transfer zwischen jüdischen und islamischen exegetischen Traditionen	Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Theology
Schmidtpeter, Annika, M. A.	Die Formation des religiös-politischen Diskurses in den Beschreibungen von Außenseitern bei Livius	Prof. Dr. Alexander Arweiler	Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Classical Philology
Spiessens, Elke, M. A.	Learning to be Muslim in Xinjiang – China’s Official Policy Towards Islamic Education and Its Counter-narratives	Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Sinology
Spreckelmeier, Susanne, M. A.	Between heaven and earth. The crossing of boundaries in bible epic texts about the assumption of Mary	Prof. Dr. Bruno Quast	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	German Philology
Steinhaus, Johanna, M. A.	Konstitution und Veränderung von genderspezifischen Rollenformaten durch die Einführung von Wehr- und Schulpflicht – Die Übersetzung des Rechts am Beispiel Brandenburg Preußens vom späten 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert	Prof. Dr. Joachim Renn	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Ströer, Sarah, M. A.	D2-8 Das Buch als Waffe in religiös-politischen Konflikten: Gewaltdiskurse und ihre Vermittlung in England im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert	Prof. Dr. Gabriele Müller-Oberhäuser	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Book Studies
Thieme, Sarah, M. A.	D2-2 Lokale Märtyrer des „Dritten Reiches“. Begräbnis und Verehrung „Alter Kämpfer“ in Westfalen und von Juliputschisten in Oberösterreich	Prof. Dr. Werner Freitag	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Comparative Urban History
Tölke, Stephan	Der Herrscherratgeber des Ibn Nubata al-Misri. Säkulare Herrschaftserfassung im mamlukenzeitlichen Politikdiskurs	Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Öksüzoğlu, Antonia, M. A.	Gesundheit – Körper – Seele im Islam am Beispiel arabischer Medizinbücher (ca. 10.-15. Jahrhundert)	Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Völker, Fabian, M. A.	Nondualität als Grundlage einer buddhistischen Gesellschaftstheorie. David R. Loys Buddhismusinterpretation	Prof. Dr. Perry Schmidt-Leukel	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Religious Studies
Wolff, Katharina, M. A.	„Höhere Gewalt“ und öffentliches Handeln. Politik im Zeichen der Pest	Prof. Dr. Jan Keupp	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Medieval History
Yildirim, Cüneyd, M. A.	Sufismus und Modernität – Muḥammad Nūr al-ʿArabī in seiner Zeit	Prof. Dr. Marco Schöller	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies

Mentors (Second funding period 2012 to 2017)

Mentor	Project	Major Subject
Gärtner, Christel, Dr. habil.	A2-22 Islam and Gender in Germany. On the (De)construction of Secularly and Religiously Legitimised Gender Relations	Religious Sociology
Große Kracht, Klaus, Dr.	B2-7 The Power of the Medium: Spiritualism and Social Order in the Second Half of the 19th Century	Modern and Contemporary History
Jensz, Felicity, Dr.	B2-11 Educating the ‘Natives’: Schools, missions, and governments in the British colonial world	Modern History
Schmitt, Rüdiger, Prof. Dr.	D2-9 Thomas Müntzer’s reception of the Book of Daniel	Early History, Protestant Theology

Doctoral Students (First funding period 2007 to 2012)

Doctoral Student	Project	Supervisor	Research Fellow	Major Subject
Acke, Hanna, M. A.	„Bis ans Ende der Welt“ – Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung der Legitimierung christlicher Mission in den Publikationen des Schwedischen Missionsbundes um 1900	Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel	Dr. Felicity Jensz	History
Alrahmany, Alsayed, M. A.	Verstehenstheorie im islamischen geistigen Erbe. Eine usulitische Studie im Lichte der Allgemeinen Hermeneutik	Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Bähr, Matthias, M. A.	Freedom, Justice, Food – “Political Languages” before the Imperial High Court (16th to 18th Century)	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Baibl, Lorenz, M. A.	Between dynastic unity and religious division. Imperial Counts in Early Modern Germany	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Baumkamp, Eva, M. A.	Christian communication networks from the second to fourth century A. D.	Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Early History
Klaus Brand, M. A.	Mesmerism dicourse in 19th-century Western Europe and North America	Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf	Dr. Christian Müller	Religious Studies, History
Crispin, David, M. A.	Gewalt und religiöse Argumentation in den lateinischen Quellen der Kreuzzüge in den Vorderen Orient	Prof. Dr. Gerd Althoff	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Drewes, Frauke, M. A.	Orientalisiert, kriminalisiert, propagiert? – Die Position von Muslimen in Gesellschaft und Politik der VR China heute	Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Duran, Muhammet Sait, M. A.	Between tradition and innovation: The purposes of the sharia (maqāṣid aš-šarī῾a) as a principle of updating the methodology of Islamic deontology in aš-Šāṭibī (died 1388) and traces of his thinking in contemporary Islamic thought.	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Islamic Studies
Ruth Ebach, Dipl.-Theol.	The other and the self. Israel’s new conceptions of identity in Deuteronomy	Prof. Dr. Rainer Albertz	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Protestant Theology
Ergi, Zehra, M. A.	The identity formation process of Turkish adolescents of the contemporary generation in Germany	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Friedrichs, Nils, M. A.	Persönlichkeit, Religiosität und Toleranz: Eine empirische Studie zur Rolle von Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und Religiosität bei der Wahrnehmung fremder Religionsgemeinschaften in Deutschland	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Soziologie
Frye, Malte, M. A.	Pilgern zu den Quellen der Gemeinschaft: Aushandlungsprozesse muslimischer Identitäten in Nachkriegsbosnien zwischen Religion und Nation	Prof. Dr. Helene Basu	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Ethnology
Hasegawa, Megumi, M. A.	Religious Processions and Conflicting Municipal Interests. Comparative Analysis of Late Medieval Cities in the Holy Roman Empire and in Japan.	Prof. Dr. Werner Freitag	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Höckelmann, Michael, M. A.	Li Deyu (787–850). (Civil-)Religion, Politics and Biography Restitution of Buddhism under Emperor Xuanzong (846-859) of the Tang Dynasty	Prof. Dr. Reinhard Emmerich	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Sinology
Karis, Tim, M. A.	Islam in Media Discourse. Narratives in the Coverage of the German TV News Magazine Tagesthemen 1979-2010	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Communication Studies
Kiser, Heiko, M. A.	Indigenous “revitalisation movement”, political opposition, Catholic Liberation Theology and evangelical churches in Oaxca, Mexico of the 1960s and 1970s	Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	History
Knäpper, Katharina, M. A.	"ίερός καί άσυλος" - On the Functions of Hellenistic Recognition of Asylia	Prof. Dr. Peter Funke	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Early History
Koch, Julia, M. A.	Gujarati-Muslims in India and South Africa: Performing Muslim Identities in the Indian Ocean	Prof. Dr. Helene Basu	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Ethnology
Krämer, Felix, M. A.	Moral Leaders. Medien, Gender und Glaube in den USA der 1970er und 1980er Jahre	Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	History
Krul, Julia, M. A.	The nocturnal ceremony at Seleucid Uruk: A structural and historical analysis		PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Early Oriental Philology and Ancient Near East Archeology
Kühnel, Florian, M. A.	Suicide in Early Modern Nobility	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Lizius, Daniel, M. A.	From dubbing to accolade. Forms, media and methods of cultural transfer in the courtly society of the European late Middle Ages	Prof. Dr. Gerd Althoff	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Merdian, Sara, M. A.	Der Strukturwandel der islamischen Öffentlichkeit. Eine Fallstudie zu den Fans muslimischer Stars
Muijsson, Hendrik, Dipl.-Soz.	Verspätete neue deutsche Selbstbeschreibungen in den Diskursen um Leitkultur, Integration und Patriotismus	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Nieder, Kathrin, M. A.	Religiotainment. Forms of staging political social order in the mode of entertainment-oriented television formats.	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Communication Studies
Quakatz, Manja, M. A.	Integration through Conversion - Ottoman converts in the Reich in the era of the “Great Turkish War” (1683-1739)	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Christian Müller	History
Reiß, Tim, M. A.	“Fact of pluralism” or “pre-political basics”? On the meaning of religion for the democratic constitutional state		Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Political Sience
Röschlein, Jens, M. A.	Sozialarbeit - Seelsorge - Mission. Sinti und Roma und die Kirchen in Deutschland 1945-1990		Dr. Klaus Große Kracht
Rzehak, Kristina, M. A.	Cultural peaks in times of political transition. Literary production and politics under Timurides and Habsburgs in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century	Prof. Dr. Tomas Tomasek	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	German Language and Literature Studies
Schaffrick, Matthias, M. A.	In the author’s company. Religious and political representations of authorship	Prof. Dr. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	German Language and Literature Studies
Schlicht, Daniela, M. A.	European Muslim Religiosity on the Internet	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Political Science
Schnoor, Antje	Obeying and shaping. Jesuits and Politics in Chile under Frei, Allende y Pinochet	Prof. Dr. Silke Hensel	Dr. Felicity Jensz	History
Schrage, Eva-Maria	Judaism between Secularisation and the Return of Religion. A Religious Sociological Study of Jewish Communities in Germany	Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack	Dr. habil. Christel Gärtner	Sociology
Schröder, Theresa, M. A.	Abbesses in the Holy Roman Empire – space and limitation of political acting	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Schuh, Maximilian	Renaissance Humanism at the University of Ingolstadt (1472 - ca. 1500). Individuals and Institutions between diverging religious and political influences.	Prof. Dr. Christel Meier-Staubach	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Schütte, Merle Marie	Rank in the context of medieval speech acts. Its manifestation, differentiation and development in historiographical and literary evidence from the 12th and 13th centuries	Prof. Dr. Gerd Althoff	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Schröder, Theresa, M. A.	Abbesses in the Holy Roman Empire – space and limitation of political acting	Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Schuh, Maximilian	Renaissance Humanism at the University of Ingolstadt (1472 - ca. 1500). Individuals and Institutions between diverging religious and political influences.	Prof. Dr. Christel Meier-Staubach	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Serra Domingues, Cláucio, M. A.	"Portugalisierung" im multireligiösen Kolonialreich: Die Religionspolitik des Estado Novo in Mozambique	Prof. Dr. Thomas Großbölting	Dr. Christian Müller	Geschichte
Speer, Sven, M. A.	The Policy on Religion of the German States. Structure, Content and Determinants of the Policy on Religion at the federal level in Germany	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	Dr. Christian Müller	Political Science
Steinke, Daniel, Dipl.-Theol.	Life and work of St. Vincent of Paul (1581-1660) and his importance as galley pastor in the context of a Christian handling of slavery in the early modern period	Prof. Dr. Hubert Wolf	Dr. Felicity Jensz	Roman Catholic Theology
Thiess, Kristina, M. A.	The Staging of Rulership – Urban Processions in Early Modern Germany	Prof. Dr. Werner Freitag	Dr. Stefanie Rüther	History
Voigt, Verena, M. A.	The Relationship between Monotheism, Conflict and Martyrdom – A Comparative Interreligious Study	Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Political Science
Ward, Joel S., M. A.	Watching history unfold: The uses of viewing in Cassius Dio, Herodian and the Historia Augusta	Prof. Dr. Johannes Hahn	PD Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt	Early History
Weichert, Ulrike	From History to Nature – The Political Hermeneutics of Leo Strauss	Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep	Dr. Christian Müller	Philosophy
Welling, Lioba, Dipl.-Jur.	Genetic Enhancement. Limits of Justification Resources of the Secular Constitutional State?	Prof. Dr. Thomas Gutmann	Dr. Klaus Große Kracht	Law

Research Fellows (First funding period 2007 to 2012)

Research Fellow	Project	Major Subject
Gärtner, Christel, Dr. habil.	Transformation of normative orders through the formation of generations. The formation of the contemporary youth generation in Germany – comparing eastern German, western German and teenagers with Muslim family background.	Religious Sociology
Große Kracht, Klaus, Dr.	Catholics in a “pre-political space”. History of Catholic Action in Germany compared on an international scale (1920 to 1960)	Modern and Contemporary History
Jensz, Felicity, Dr.	“Strangers in a strange land”: a comparative study of the religious and institutional ties of German Moravian missionaries within British settler colonies of Victoria, Australia and Upper Canada, Canada during the 19^th century	Modern History
Müller, Christian, Dr.	The Politics of Expertise. Social science, political reform, and transnational networks in Europe during the Culture Wars, 1848 - c.1880	Modern History
Rüther, Stefanie, Dr.	The violence of the saints – representations of saintly actors of violence in historical and biblical wars	Mideaval History
Schmitt, Rüdiger, Prof. Dr.	Sacralisation of War in the Old Testament	Early History, Protestant Theology

Early-Career Researchers Projects: Graduate School

Mentors

Doctoral Students (Second funding period 2012 to 2017)

Mentors (Second funding period 2012 to 2017)

Doctoral Students (First funding period 2007 to 2012)

Research Fellows (First funding period 2007 to 2012)