Team

Susanne Schröter

Prof. Susanne Schröter is founder and director of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam, principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" and professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is also member of the executive boards of the German Orient Institute and the Hessische Forum für Religion und Gesellschaft (Hessian Forum for Religion and Society) and serves in the scientific advisory council of the Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (Institute für Democracy and Civil Society). She is also a member of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft (Polytechnical Society) and member of the senate of the Deutsche Nationalstiftung.

Research Interests

Topics

Political Islam, Islamic extremism
Multiculturalism, multiple modernities
Women’s movements, feminist Islam
Transformation of gender orders
Secularism and post-secularism
Political, religious, and ethnic conflicts
Formation of states and nations, opposition to statehood, rebellion
Refugees and integration
Development of Democracy and Social Cohesion
Academic Freedom and Wokeness

Regional Focus

Southeast Asia
North Africa
Germany

Research Projects

Transformations of gender orders in the Islamic world
Muslims in the city of Wiesbaden
Salafism in the Rhine Main Region
Para-statehood