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• ISLA11, Islamology: Level 1
• ISLA20, Islamology: Muhammad, The Quran and the Formative History
• ISLA23, Islamology: Islam in the Age of the Empires

Education

• Ph.D. (Co-tutelle) in Islamic Studies, Leiden University, co-supervision at Columbia University and WWU Münster (2013 – 2017)
• Visiting Scholar, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department (MESAAS) and Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), Columbia University in the City of New York, Ph.D. Advisor: Wael Hallaq (2015 – 2017)
• Ph.D. Graduate Exchange, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University (Jan-May 2014)
• M.A. Research, Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University (2011 – 2013)
• B.A., Double-major, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Sociology of Culture, University of Ljubljana (2006 – 2011)

Additional Education

• Language Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic, Université Mohammed V Souissi - Faculté des Sciences de l’Education, Rabat, Morocco, Advance level (June – July 2012)
• Language Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic, Merkaz Dawd, Cairo, Egypt (Feb – May 2011)
• Exchange Student, Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo (Feb – Aug 2010)
• Erasmus Exchange, Utrecht University (2007 – 2008)

Academic Appointments and Research Posts

• Associate Faculty, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), New York City (2019 – present)
• Research Scholar, Middle East Institute (MEI), Columbia University, New York City (2019 – present)
• Visiting Researcher, The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII), Turkey (June – July 2024)
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Islamic Studies, Istanbul University, Turkey (June – July 2023)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF), Oslo, Norway (2020 – 2024)
• Research Scholar, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), Columbia University, New York (2017 – 2018)
• Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway (2017 – 2018)
• Lecturer, Leiden University Center for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Leiden University (2014 – 2015)

Projects & Research Group

CTR, Lund University:

• Critical Islamic Studies Research Group and Consortium (founder; previously at MF, 2021 – 2024)
  

MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society:

• “Nature and the Hereafter in Islamic Intellectual Tradition,” Postdoc project (2020 – 2024)
• “INTERSECT: Intersecting Flows of Islamophobia” (2019 – 2020)

IRCPL, Columbia University (2017 – 2019):

• “Religion, Environment, and Economic Traditions – Refining an Epistemology of Moral Accountability”, project director
• “Religion & the Rise of Populisms: Difference, Dissent, and Tolerance” (MENA and Europe)
• “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference” (MENA)

IKOS, University of Oslo (2017 – 2018):

• “GreenMENA – Middle East and North Africa”