Team > PD Markus Dreßler

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Facheinheit Religionswissenschaft

Education

• 2014 Habilitation in Religious Studies, Bayreuth University
• 2011 Doçentlik (Turkish equivalent to Habilitation) in Sociology
• 2001 Ph.D. Religious Studies (Dr. phil.), Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Kippenberg)
• 1997 M.A. Religious Studies and Islamic Studies, Marburg University

Employment History (full-time)

• since 04/2016 Assistant Professor, Leipzig University
• 10/2015 – 03/2016 Assistant Professor, Bayreuth University, Religious Studies Department
• 04/2015 – 09/2015 Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Universität Bayreuth, Department of Religious Studies
• 2014 – 2015 Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Social Scientific Study of Religion, Institute for Sociology
• 2013 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Bayreuth University, Religious Studies Department
• 2011 – 2013 Associate Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Social Sciences and Humanities Department
• 2008 – 2011 Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Social Sciences and Humanities Department
• 2005 – 2008 Assistant Professor (tenure track), Hofstra University, Religion Department
• 2003 (fall) Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Religion Department

Further Research and Teaching Affiliations

• since 2011 Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen.
• since 2011 Associate Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Social Sciences and Humanities Department.
• 2008 – 2011 Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Social Sciences and Humanities Department.
• 2010 Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (June-July).
• 2010 Visiting Assist. Professor, Turkology, Free University Berlin, ERASMUS Faculty Exchange Program (June-July).
• 2008/2009 Senior Fellow in Residence, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul.
• 2007/2008 Research Fellow, American Research Institute in Turkey ARIT, Istanbul.
• 2005 – 2008 Assistant Professor (tenure track), Hofstra University, Religion Department.
• 2004 (spring) Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, Department for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.
• 2003 (fall) Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College, Religion Department.
• 2003 (spring) Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, Religious Studies Program.
• 2001/2002 Visiting Scholar, New York University, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies (November 2001 - May 2002)
• 2001 Visiting Scholar, Orient Institute of the German Oriental Society, Istanbul (May - Oct. 2001).

Scholarships and Awards

• 2010 Research Fellow (summer) at Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
• 2008 – 2009 Senior Fellow in Residence, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University
• 2007 – 2008 Fellowship for Research in Turkey (Sept. 2007 – March 2008),
• American Research Institute in Turkey/ National Endowment for the Humanities
• 2007 Faculty Research Development Grant, Hofstra University, for summer research in Turkey
• 2006 Grant for organizing conference on “The Politics of Religion-Making” scheduled for October 2007, Hofstra University Cultural Center
• 2006 Faculty Research Development Grant, Hofstra University, for summer research trip to Turkey
• 2003/2004 Stipend, European-American Young Scholars’ Summer Institutes 2003-2004: Secularization and Religion
• 2002 – 2004 Research grant, Columbia University, Middle East Institute, Muslims in New York City Project
• 2001 – 2002 Post-doctoral Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); research project: “The Religious Meaning of the Political. Alevi Poetry in the 20th Century”
• 1998 – 2001 Dissertation research and writing scholarship, State of Thuringia and Erfurt University
• 1996 – 1997 M.A. Scholarship, Markel Foundation, Stuttgart

Referee Activity (for journals)

Religion
Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients
Muslim World
Comparative Islamic Studies
Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
European Journal of Turkish Studies
New Perspectives on Turkey
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic
Developments
Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, and Theory
Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi

Referee Activity (for academic publishers)

Oxford University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Edinburgh University Press

Refereee Activity (for national research organizations)

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Council for the
Humanities
Swiss National Science Foundation, Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences

Publikationen

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