Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz
© Dorothea Schulz

  • Research Foci

    • Anthropology of Religion
    • Mental health and spiritual wellbeing
    • Political Anthropology
    • Islam in Africa
    • Gender Studies
    • Anthropology of Media

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Postdoctoral Degree (Habilitation), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin (venia legendi for Anthropology)
    PhD Yale University, Dept. of Anthropology
    Master of Arts in Anthropology, Sociology and Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Study of Anthropology, Sociology and Biology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
    Study of Art History, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier (France)

    Positions

    Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU) Münster
    Professor of Anthropology, Department of Cultural & Social Anthropology, Universität zu Köln
    Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA)
    Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
    Lecturer, Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main
    M.Phil. and Ph.D., Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven (USA)

    Honors

    Visiting Scholar – Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago (USA)
    Fellow, Center for African Studies – Harvard University (USA)
    Fellow – Berlin Graduate School „Muslim Cultures and Societies“ (USA)
    Visiting scholar – Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oslo (Norway)
    Teaching Prize – Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universität zu Köln
    Fellow – Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)
    Frobenius Society’s Research Award – Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main

    External Functions

    Member, Selection Committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    Scientific Member of the Steering Committee, Initiative of Excellence of the Universität zu Köln
    Member, African Studies Association Germany (VAD)
    Co-Editor, Series „Mande Worlds“ (Lit Verlag)
    Academic Director, Research and Teaching Unit „Media, Culture and Society“, Universität zu Köln
    Member, American Academy of Religions (AAR)
    Advisory Board, Series „Ethnographien“ (Konstanz University Press)
    Member, American Anthropological Association (AAA)
    Member, African Studies Association (ASA)

  • Projects

    • EXC 2060 B3-48 - The role of social identities in interreligious arrangements: comparative perspectives on and from Sub-Saharan Africa (since )
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1
    • KFG 33: Access to cultural goods in digital change: art historical, curatorial, and ethical aspects ( – )
      Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Centres for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
    • EXC 2060 B3-20 - Testing and contesting religious pluralism in Uganda ( – )
      Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1
    • Cluster of Excellence 2060 - Religion and Politics: Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation ( – )
      Main DFG-Project Hosted at the University of Münster: DFG - Cluster of Excellence | Project Number: EXC 2060/1
    • Time and Artefact ( – )
      Internally at the University of Münster Funded Project: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
    • Cultures of Debate and Media in Transition ( – )
      Internally at the University of Münster Funded Project: Uni Münster-internal funding - Topical Programs
    • Muslims as a religious minority in Uganda ( – )
      Individual Granted Project: DFG - Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: SCHU 1276/14-1

  • Publications

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Aspiration and activism: Muslim students’ efforts of future-making in Mbarara, Southwestern Uganda. In Sounaye, Abdoulaye; Madore, Frédérick (Eds.), Religiosity on University Campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. (pp. 243–272). Münster: LIT Verlag.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Introduction: Rifle, Quill, Prayer Beads. Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali. Africa Today, 70(1), 1–10.
    • Schulz, Dorothea E.; Diallo, Souleymane (Eds.) (). Special Issue on Rifle, Pen, and Prayer Beads: Constructing Political Legitimacy in Mali. Africa Today, 2023/ 70.
    • Diallo, Souleymane and Dorothea E. Schulz. (). Fragments of Legitimacy: Symbolic Constructions of Political Leadership in Twenty-First Century Mali. Africa Today, 70(1), 12–37. doi: 10.2979/at.2023.a905848.

    • Schulz Dorothea, Diallo Souleymane. (). Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali. In Stiles, Erin; Akin, Ayang Utriza (Eds.), Islamic Divorce in the 21th century. A Global Perspective (pp. 143–165). Chapel Hill, NC: Rutgers University Press.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Media, the digital, and new connections. . In Østebø, Terja (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa (pp. 293–307). London: Routledge.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Religious practice and/ as future making in Africa: some cautionary remarks. In Greiner, Clemens; van Wolputte, Steven, Bollig, Michael (Eds.), African Futures (pp. 47–55). Leiden: Brill.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Political Legitimacy in Postcolonial Mali. London. James Currey.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Introduction. Studying Muslim minorities in Subsaharan Africa. Preliminary Remarks. Islamic Africa, 12(2), 173–185.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). "Trusting is a Dicey Affair". Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future Making in Southwestern Uganda. In Inghorn, Marica; Smith-Hefner, Nancy (Eds.), Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage. (pp. 60–87). New York City: Berghahn Books.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). The hunter hype. Producing "local culture" and particularity in Mali. In Meiu, George; Comaroff, Jean; Comaroff, John L. (Eds.), Ethnicity, Commodity, In/corporation (pp. 168–194). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). "Shari’a” as a moving target? The reconfiguration of national and regional fields of debate in Mali. In Hefner, Robert (Eds.), Shari’a Law and Modern Ethics (pp. 203–228). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World. Some Critical Reflections. In Buskens, L.; van Sandwijk, A. (Eds.), Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: Transformations and Continuities (pp. 109–133). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1zxsk97.9.
    • Schulz Dorothea, Diallo Souleymane. (). Competing Assertions of Muslim Masculinity in Contemporary Mali. Journal of Religion in Africa, 46(2-3), 219–250. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340085.
    • Schulz Dorothea, Janson Marloes. (). Introduction: Religion and Masculinities in Africa. Journal of Religion in Africa, 46(2-3), 201–209. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12340078.

    • Röschenthaler, Ute; Schulz, Dorothea (Eds.). (). Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa. London. Routledge.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Mediating authority: Media Technologies and the Generation of Charismatic Appeal in Southern Mali. Culture and Religion, 16, 125–145. doi: 10.1080/14755610.2015.1058525.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). What makes a good minority Muslim? Educational policy and the paradoxes of Muslim schooling in Uganda. Contemporary Islam, 7(1), 53–70. doi: 10.1007/s11562-013-0246-y.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). (En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda. Journal of Religion in Africa, 43(4), 396–425. doi: 10.1163/15700666-12341268.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Culture and Customs of Mali . Santa Barbara/CA. Greenwood Publishers.
    • Desplat, Patrick A.; Schulz, Dorothea (Eds.). (). Prayer in the City. The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life. Bielefeld. Transcript Verlag.
    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Dis/embodying Authority: Female radio „preachers“ and the ambivalences of mass-mediated speech in Mali. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 44(1), 23–43. doi: 10.1017/S0020743811001231.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Muslims and New Media in West Africa. Pathways to God. Bloomington, IN. Indiana University Press.

    • Schulz, Dorothea; Seebode, Jochen (Eds.). (). Spiegel und Prisma. Ethnologie zwischen postkolonialer Kritik und Deutung der eigenen Gesellschaft. Hamburg. Argument Verlag.

    • Schulz, Dorothea. (). Perpetuating the Politics of Praise. Jeli Singers, Radios, and Political Mediation in Mali. Köln. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.