Kitzler, Gisela
Gisela Kitzler is Senior Lecturer in Arabic at the University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies. She holds an MA in Arabic Studies from the University of Vienna. Gisela Kitzler spent three years living and working in Cairo (2012–2015). Her research area is Arabic Dialectology (mainly Egyptian Arabic) and Arabic Popular Culture. She is currently working on her PhD project on Egyptian ša?bi- and mahraganat-music, focusing on discourses in the song lyrics, as well as the controversial discourse on these musical genres in Egypt.
Makota, Amy
Amy F. Makota is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. She obtained her 2013 BA in English with minors in West European Studies, German, Medieval Studies, and Creative Writing, and her 2017 MA in West European Studies. Amy’s specialization country is Germany, focusing on Gender and Social Activism in German hip hop.
Sagir, Fatma
Dr Fatma Sagir was born in 1974 in Sivas, Turkey and is currently a post-doc researcher in Cultural Anthropology at Freiburg University with a focus on digital ethnography, digital culture, popular culture and young Muslims and Muslim women. She is a Teaching Fellow at University College Freiburg. Fatma Sagir has a background in journalism and holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from Freiburg University. Her research focuses on young Muslims in digital culture with a focus on Muslim women infl uencers, Muslim fashion and lifestyle blogging. Other research interests include popular culture, fashion, religion, entertainment and music.
Nasir, Kamaludeen Mohamed
Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore where he is also Associate Chair of the School of Social Sciences. He is the 2016 Western Sydney University International Alumni of the Year. In 2017, he won the Nanyang Research Award for being one of the three best young professors in his university. He has authored five books including Digital Culture and Religion in Asia (with Sam Han) (2016) and Globalized Muslim Youth in the Asia Pacific: Popular Culture in Singapore and Sydney (2016). His areas of interest are in the sociology of religion, youth and social theory. His book, Representing Islam: Hip-Hop of the September 11 Generation, is being published by Indiana University Press later this year.
Wolf, Silvia Ilonka
Silvia Ilonka Wolf is a PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS). Her doctoral project focuses on concerts and Muslim identity in Indonesia. She earned MA degrees in Indonesian Language and Culture at Leiden University (2008), in Turkish Studies at Sabanci University (2015) and in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (2018). During her MA in Istanbul she conducted an anthropological study of the Turkish vegan animal rights movement, followed by her publication Beyond Nonhuman Animal Rights: a Grassroots Movement in Istanbul and its Alignment with Other Causes (2015). Her research interests include Islamic popular culture in Southeast Asia, transnational Islam, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and animal rights activism.
Sagir, Fatma
Dr Fatma Sagir was born in 1974 in Sivas, Turkey and is currently a post-doc researcher in Cultural Anthropology at Freiburg University with a focus on digital ethnography, digital culture, popular culture and young Muslims and Muslim women. She is a Teaching Fellow at University College Freiburg. Fatma Sagir has a background in journalism and holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from Freiburg University. Her research focuses on young Muslims in digital culture with a focus on Muslim women infl uencers, Muslim fashion and lifestyle blogging. Other research interests include popular culture, fashion, religion, entertainment and music.
Jost, Christofer
Christofer Jost ist Oberkonservator am Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik sowie Privatdozent am Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft der Universität Freiburg. 2008 wurde er in Musikpädagogik an der Universität Mainz promoviert. 2011 hat er sich an der Universität Basel für Medienwissenschaft habilitiert (Umhabilitierung 2018 an der Universität Freiburg). 2013 vertrat er einen Lehrstuhl für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Mannheim. Seine Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre sind: Populäre Musik, digitale Medien und Musik, audiovisuelle Medienkulturen, Performance Studies sowie Musik und Bildung.
Christofer Jost is a lecturer at the Center for Popular Culture and Music and associate professor (Privatdozent) at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, both at the University of Freiburg. In 2008, he received his doctorate in music pedagogy from the University of Mainz. In 2011, he completed his Habilitation in media studies at the University of Basel (Umhabilitation 2018 at the University of Freiburg). In 2013, he represented a chair of media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim. He is currently head of the joint project “Music Objects of Popular Culture. Function and Meaning of Instrument Technology and Audio Media in Changing Socio-cultural Constellations” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (funding period 2018–2021). His main areas of research and teaching are: popular music, digital media and music, audiovisual media cultures, music pedagogy and performance studies.
Gansinger, Martin A.M.
Martin Abdel Matin Gansinger studied Communication Science and Political Science at the University of Vienna. In 2007 he conducted a 9-month ethnographic research in Ghana on patterns of improvisation, interaction and intercultural aspects of West African music as well as on the settlement of the Bobo Shanti Order of Rastafari in Koforidua. Between 2010 and 2018 he carried out a long-term field study on extemporaneous communication as instructional method in traditional knowledge systems in Fez/Morocco and at the convent of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order in Lefk e/Cyprus, where he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the European University of Lefk e and as an Assistant Professor at Girne American University. He is currently holding the position of Assistant Professor at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. His most recent publication presents a Rastafarian perspective on race and class in Reggae (Th e Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class).
Peranic, Meltem
Meltem Peranic is a PhD candidate at the Department of Historical and Cultural Anthropology (Ludwig Uhland Institute) at the University of Tübingen. From 2016 to 2017 she was an assistant researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute and from 2017 to 2019 a doctoral fellow in the project “Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies”, funded by the Humboldt Foundation. Since 2020 she has been also working in a municipal offi ce in the field of equality of opportunity, gender and integration. Her current research focuses on Muslim popular music, the making of new Muslim identities and enjoying Islam. Her other research interests are intersections of religion and the secular, hyphenated identity, gender, diversity and corporate culture.
Yassine, Rachida
Rachida Yassine is currently professor of English and Cultural Studies at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. She is Director of the PhD program in “Race, Ethnicity, and Alterity in Literature and Culture”, and Director of the Research Laboratory “Culture, Language, Arts, and Society”. She holds a PhD in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK; an MA in Linguistics and Translation from the University of Bath, UK; an MA in English and American Literature and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Comparative Literature from the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Re-writing the Canon: Aspects of Identity Reconstitution in Postcolonial Contexts (2011). She has published many articles and book chapters on cultural studies, gender studies, colonial and postcolonial literatures, postcolonial feminism, and Arab women writings. Her present research interests include critical theory and cultural studies, Arab feminism, gender and women’s studies, Comparative literature.
Nour, Akbar
Akbar Nour is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bern’s Institute of Social Anthropology. His current research focuses on the following topic: “Religiosity and Citizenship Amongst Young Swiss Muslim Adults: An Ethnographic Account’’. He has a solid academic background in Political Science, Social Antropology, Migration and Post-War Recovery Studies (Switzerland and Great-Britain). He is part of the Swiss Graduate Programme in Anthropology.
Morris, Carl
Carl Morris is a Lecturer in Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Central Lancashire. His principal area of expertise relates to Contemporary Islam and the Sociology of Religion. To date his publications and research interests have focused on British Muslim cultural production, ranging from music and comedy to film and television. He is the former General Secretary for the Muslims in Britain Research Network.
Barone, Stefano
Stefano Barone is a Sociology lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). His research focuses on youth cultures and popular music: in particular, he has been working on the heavy metal, electronic, and rap music scenes in post-revolutionary Tunisia. He has published several papers on this topic, both in English and French. His book “Metal, Rap, and Electro in post-revolutionary Tunisia. A Fragile Underground” was published by Routledge in 2019.
Ahmed, Daniyal
Daniyal Ahmed is and artist and Anthropologist from Pakistan and an MA in South Asian Studies at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg. He has worked in various cross-cultural music projects involving both performance and pedagogy in Pakistan as well as Germany. His work combines his passion for music and sound with his training in Anthropology, Ethnography and writing. His current project, also his MA thesis, brings together fieldwork and performance experience from 2015 onwards to look at the soundscape of the contemporary moment of migration in Germany.
