Team > Benedikt Römer, M.A.
Benedikt Römer, M.A.
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
Vita
- Since 01/2019: Research associate in the BMBF-funded junior research group „Islamic Contemporary Cultures” at the University of Bayreuth
- 2017 - 2018: MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, University of London
- 07 - 08/2017: research internship at the Orient-Institut Istanbul
- Summer term 2016: Tutor for Modern Persian at the department for the Study of Religion in Bayreuth
- 11/2014 - 06/2016: Student assistant in the junior research group “Shi’i Muslims and Shi’ite Religiosity in Germany” supervised by PD Dr. Robert Langer
- 2014 - 2018: scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (“Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”)
- 2013 - 2017: BA in the Study of Religion, Constitutional Law, and Arabic at the University of Bayreuth; 2016 – 2017: exchange year at SOAS, University of London
Functions
- Co-editor of the Journal “Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft” (ZjR)
Memberships
- German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
Priorities
- Religion and Migration
- Religious minorities in the Middle East
- Islam in Germany and in Turkey
- Religion and nationalism
- Language planning and linguistic purism in Middle Eastern languages
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion
Benedikt Römer, M.A.
Research Associate at the research group “Contemporary Islamic Cultures” (Prof. Bochinger, Prof. Schrode)
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4729 | Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-844156
E-Mail: benedikt.roemer@uni-bayreuth.de
Room: 4.4.12 (Zapf Gebäude - Haus 4)
Study of Religion with Focus on Contemporary Islam
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Germany