Research

Ethnicity at the University - Processes of Ethnic Boundary Making and Relations of Inequality during the Curriculum (2011-2015), SFB 882, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Microdynamics of Political Communication in the World-Society. The Social Life of the Democracy Concept in two Islamic States (2011-2014), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Plurality, (In)Equality and social Change in South-Asia - Exchange cooperation with University of Calcutta and Rabindra Bharati University (2010-2013), "A New Passage to India", German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Ethnicisation and De-Ethnicisation of the Political. Media, Actors, and ethnic semantics in transnational communicative spaces (2008-2012), SFB 584, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
EURASIA-NET: Supranational Policies and Instruments for the Promotion of Human Rights and the Management of Minority Issues. Associate member. (2007-2011), 7. Framework Programme of the European Commission

The Politics of Belonging in the Himalayas: collaborative conference- and publicationproject (2007-2010), British Academy, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Maison de la Science de l’Homme (MSH), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Ethnicisation and De-Ethnicisation of the Political. Negotiations of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Andes and South Asia (2004-2008), SFB 584, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Religious Organizations and Immigrant Incorporation (2006-2008), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
MIDEA-Projekt (EU Asia-Link-Programm) "The (Micro)Politics of Democratisation: European-South Asian Exchanges on Governance, Conflict and Civic Action" Informations are also available as a PDF-file.