MA Laura Rowitz Research Associate and PhD Candidate in the SNF-project TraSIS Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften E-Mail laura.rowitz@unibe.ch Office S126 Postal Address University of Bern Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies SACS Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern Consultation Hour by arrangement via email
Academic Career Since August 2022 – Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in the SNFS-project "Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources" (TraSIS) 2020-2022 – Research and Teaching Assistant, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO), University of Bern 2019-2020 – Research Assistant at Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg. Project Coordinator for the teaching project “One Foot in the Past - One in the Future: Young Investigators and the Tradition of Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg”. 2019 – MA in Islamwissenschaft (Islamic Studies), Hamburg University 2014 – BA in „Geschichte, Sprache und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Schwerpunkt Islamwissenschaft“, Hamburg University
Current research SNSF-Project "Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources" (TraSIS, PI Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino, 2022-2026) Teaching and research project on the history of Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg (financed by the Claussen Simon Foundation) (concluded)
Research interest History of Labour in Islamicate societies, particularly the Gulf region Social and Economic History of West Asia and North Africa History of Middle Eastern Studies
