AREAS OF INTEREST
EDUCATION
2003 M.A. (Magister) in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2016 Dr. Phil (PhD) in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
ACADEMIC CAREER
Since March 2021 Research fellow, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
2020 Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Iranistics, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
2009 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2004 – 2008 Researcher and Coordinator of the Oral History Research Project ”Bukharan Jews- Making Meaning of Memories and Identity,“ Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
STUDY GRANTS
2000 – 2001 DAAD scholarship (one year) at the State National University Tajikistan (DDMT), Dushanbe
RESEARCH GRANTS and PROJECTS
2018 – 2019 DAAD grants (Go East) for three-weeks summer-schools Tajik Language, Culture and Everyday Life in Dushanbe and Uzbek Language, Culture and Everyday Life in Samarkand
2002 – 2003 DAAD research scholarship (three months), Tajikistan
CONFERENCES
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
Bukharan Jewish periodicals
In the early 20th century newspapers and periodicals became the main platforms for cultural and political debate among reformist intellectuals in Central Asia and a major tool for knowledge transfer and the connection to the modern world. Founded and funded by the Bukharan Jewish entrepreneur Rahmin Dovidboyev (1880-1937) the first Judeo-Persian weekly Rakhamim (“Mercy”) was published between 1910 and 1914 in Skobelev (today’s Ferghana in Uzbekistan). In Soviet times, the Bukharan Jewish press was transformed from a pioneering privately owned enterprise that served the needs of the Jewish communities throughout Central Asia to an instrument owned and regulated by the state. This projects focusses on the development and transformations of Judeo-Persian / Judeo-Tajik newspapers and periodicals in Central Asia in the first half of the twentieth century and situates them in the broader Central Asian mediascape.
Persophone literary modernity in CENTRAL ASIA, AFGHANISTAN and IRAN
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed an intensified debate over the role of Persian literature. The search for a new literary mode of expression came together with the attempt to describe and assess the literary heritage and its limitations. Our working group aims at capturing the spirit of this debate and making it accessible to an international and interdisciplinary academic community.
The focus lies on the manner in which modernity was perceived and reflected by the literary actors (poets, authors, literary critics) themselves. A corpus of original texts from all over the Persophone world written during the period will be presented in English translation, accompanied by biographical notes, a select bibliography and an introduction contextualizing the authors and their ideas.
The working group consists of scholars representing different fields of Persophone literary history:
Christine Nölle-Karimi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Roxane Haag-Higuchi (Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg)
Amr Ahmed (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris)
Bianca Devos (Philipps-University, Marburg)
Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University, New Haven)
Justine Landau (Harvard University, Cambridge MA)
Thomas Loy (CAS, Oriental Institute, Prague)
PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH
Monographs
Research articles
Chapters in collective volumes
Edited volumes
Briefs and other articles