Participation in the Cluster of Excellence
- Field of research C Criticism of religion and apologetics
- Theory platform Inequality
- Research cloud Migration and diaspora
- Head of project C3-8 Dynamics and Tradition: German Immigrants and Religious Purality in the U.S. in the 19th Century
- Head of project C2-3 The Transcendental Creation of Community in a Multi-Religious Society: The U.S. from 1945 to 2005 (until 2018)
- Head of project B12 Religion and “Civil Religion” in US American Patriotic Holidays, 1945−1990/1992 (until 2012)