Professor Dorothea Schulz, PhD

Professor Dorothea Schulz, PhD

Studtstr. 21
48149 Münster

T: +49 251 83-27311
F: +49 251 83-27313

 
  • Research Areas

    • Anthropology of Religion
    • Mental health and spiritual wellbeing
    • Political Anthropology
    • Islam in Africa
    • Gender Studies
    • Anthropology of Media
  • CV

    Education

    Postdoctoral Degree (Habilitation), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (venia legendi for Anthropology)
    PhD Yale University, Dept. of Anthropology
    Master of Arts in Anthropology, Sociology and Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Study of 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
    Lecturer, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main
    M.Phil. and Ph.D., Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven (USA)

    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
    Member, American Academy of Religions (AAR)
    Advisory Board, Series „Ethnographien“ (Konstanz University Press)
    Member, American Anthropological Association (AAA)
    Member, African Studies Association (ASA)
  • Publications

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

    The Ten Most Important Publications.

    Peer-reviewed publications

    • (with Marloes Janson) Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa, in: Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 46/2-3, Leiden/Boston 2016, pp. 121-128.
    • (with Souleymane Diallo) Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali, in: Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 46/2-3, Leiden/Boston 2016, pp. 219-250.
    • Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World. Some Critical Reflections, in: L. Buskens, A. van Sandwijk (eds.), Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities, Amsterdam 2016, pp. 109-133.
    • „Shari’a“ as a moving target? The reconfiguration of regional and national fields of Muslim debate in Mali, in: R. Hefner (ed.), Shari’a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics, Bloomington 2016.
    • Mediating authority: Media Technologies and the Generation of Charismatic Appeal in Southern Mali, in: Culture and Religion. An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 16, 2015, pp. 125-145.
    • (En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda, in: Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 43/4, Leiden/Boston 2013, pp. 396-425.
    • What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda, in: Contemporary Islam, vol. 7/1, Berlin 2013, pp. 53-70.
    • Dis/embodying Authority: Female radio „preachers“ and the ambivalences of mass-mediated speech in Mali, in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 44/1, Cambridge 2012, pp. 23-43.
    • Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God, Bloomington 2012.

    Other publications

    • (ed., together with Patrick A. Desplat) Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life, Bielefeld 2012.

     

     

  • Teaching

    82877 Cultures and Practices of Hearing
    19.04.18 - 12.07.18, Thu 12-14, F 042
    082881 Research Colloquium
    19.04.18 - 19.07.18, Thu 14-16, STU 105 (2.10)
    19.04.18 - 19.07.18, Thu 14-16, STU 104 (2.1)
    082884 Institute´s Colloquium
    14-täglich, 18.04.18 - 11.07.18, Wed 18-20, STU 105 (2.10)
    14-täglich, 18.04.18 - 11.07.18, Wed 18-20, STU 104 (2.1)
    082885 Writing a Project Proposal
    18.04.18 - 11.07.18, Wed 14-16, STU 102 (2.4)
    18.04.18 - 11.07.18, Wed 14-16, STU 104 (2.1)
    082889 Master- and PhD-Colloquium
    18.04.18 - 11.07.18, Wed 16-18, STU 105 (2.10)