Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +45-353-23706
Kobmagergade 44-46
2400 Kopenhagen K
Denmark
ABOUT
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 and is currently working in the field of Muslim minority studies with a focus religious practice, production and dissemination of Islamic knowledge in connection with identity politics, and the institutionalization of Islam in Europe. Currently she is pursuing post-doctoral research analyzing quantitative national and multinational polls among Muslims in Western Europe since 2000.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Specialties
Transnational Muslim Networks
Islam In Europe
Female Muslim Authorities
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
German (native)
Oromo (elementary)
Spanish (fluent)
French (elementary)
Russian (elementary)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2008
| Inst. Asian and African Studies
| Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Abstracts
Strategies for Female Religious Leadership in Gendered Spaces in Germany
