University of Copenhagen

Post-Doc, Centre for European Islamic Thought

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Riem Spielhaus is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Islamic Thought. Her dissertation “Who is a Muslim anyway? The emergence of a Muslim consciousness in Germany between ascription and self-identification” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin was rewarded the Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies 2010.
She majored both in Islamic Studies and African Studies.
After completing her Magister Artium Riem Spielhaus has been working as advisor for the commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration of the German Federal Government.
She was a member of several working groups, which were set up by the German government, local administrations and civic organizations like the first “German Islam Conference” (2006-2009).
Riem Spielhaus taught  Arabic, courses on Muslims in minority situations, introductions to Islamic Studies and Area Studies and methodology in Area Studies Programs at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Emergence of Islam at Copenhagen University.

Riem Spielhaus is interested in Muslim minority studies with a focus on production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge, identity politics of Muslims in Europe. Her main field of expertise is religious practice of Muslims and institutionalisation of Islam in Germany. Currently she is pursuing her post-doctoral research at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a comparison of national and multinational polls and surveys among Muslims in Western Europe since 2000.

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