Staff members with discipline Area Studies
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.
I am a historian working on the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. I am broadly interested in the history of the Nahda, historiography, and Arabic literature. My disseration, lying at the intersection of Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish studies, examined the Arabic Jewish press in the Middle East during the 1930s and '40s and studies the ideas and intellectual networks of its editors and contributors.
- State-socialist and post-socialist architecture and urbanism
- Architecture and urban planning in East-Central Europe and the Balkans
- Islamic cultural and urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century
- Post-disaster and post-war urban reconstruction
---------- Dr Babic's scholarship explores the intersection of architecture and ideology during the state-socialist and post-socialist periods in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, with a particualr focus on former Yugoslavia. She examines the intertwined nature of architectural production, urban planning, and socio-political events in the state-socialist countries of the twentieth century and the socio-political and architectural developments in contemporary post-communist Europe. Her current work investigates the production and negotiations of urban identities in post-socialist spaces, particularly focusing on state socialist housing estates and urban monuments.
- Architecture and urban planning in East-Central Europe and the Balkans
- Islamic cultural and urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century
- Post-disaster and post-war urban reconstruction
---------- Dr Babic's scholarship explores the intersection of architecture and ideology during the state-socialist and post-socialist periods in East-Central and Southeastern Europe, with a particualr focus on former Yugoslavia. She examines the intertwined nature of architectural production, urban planning, and socio-political events in the state-socialist countries of the twentieth century and the socio-political and architectural developments in contemporary post-communist Europe. Her current work investigates the production and negotiations of urban identities in post-socialist spaces, particularly focusing on state socialist housing estates and urban monuments.
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m.babic rug.nl
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Assistant Professor History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
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Anthropology of Islam, everyday religion, pilgrimage studies, migration & Identity, Muslims in diaspora, Dialogical Self Theory, biographical Research
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Professor of Contemporary Islam
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Social-economic History, Europe since 1750, European Regional Development. The Netherlands and its regions, Historical Network Analysis, Public History.
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Professor emeritus of Economic, Social & Regional History
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f.gaenssmantel rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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My main areas of interest are: democracy and authoritarianism; the European Union and the Eastern Partnership; and post-Soviet politics.
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e.e.a.van.gils rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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As a researcher, my primary interest is the modern history of Jewish communities in the Islamic world and their responses to modernity. From a methodological standpoint I consider myself a historian, and as such the majority of my research is based on archival material and historic press in English, French, Arabic, and Hebrew, dating from the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. My current research rethinks the connection between transnational solidarity organizations and empire. The focus is on the centrality and agency of non-European elites, thereby challenging assumptions about the center and the periphery within colonial networks.
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s.r.goldstein rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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t.haartsen rug.nl
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Professor of Rural Geography
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From a combined background in Languages and Cultures of the Middle East (Arabic) and Translation Studies, I study literary, ideological and ideational exchanges between Western Europe and the Arabic Middle East; modern Arabic literature; literary translations; history and poetics of translation in the Middle East.
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h.hamad rug.nl
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Lecturer
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Modern history and international relations of East Asia ( in particular related to Japan); history and historiography of colonialism, imperialism and globalisation; European political culture and political history ( 19th-21st century) with special attention to the role of the press.
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Professor Europe-East Asia Relations, with a focus on Japan;Director of Studies Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context
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Archaeology and Anthropology of Circumpolar Peoples and Cultures
I am a sociologist specialized in the making of memories and heritage work in the Middle East and North Africa. My research interests analyze memorial practices, social movements, and racialization in the Modern MENA region. I lecture on political sociology, cultures studies, and sociology of international relations.
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m.m.s.madbouly rug.nl
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Coloniality/Decolonialism
Latino politics
Texas history, culture and politics
Religion in American culture and politics
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Mexican American history, politics and culture
U.S. Catholic history
U.S.-Mexico relations
Latino politics
Texas history, culture and politics
Religion in American culture and politics
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Mexican American history, politics and culture
U.S. Catholic history
U.S.-Mexico relations
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a.m.martinez rug.nl
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Assistant Professor, American Political Theory and Culture (tenured)
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Middle East
Conflicts, terrorism, jihadism
Religion and violence
Media and propaganda
Conflicts, terrorism, jihadism
Religion and violence
Media and propaganda
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p.g.t.nanninga rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies
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African history (particularly Zambia, South Africa, and Nigeria); environmental history; social history; oral history. I study the environmental history of mining and oil drilling in Africa. My aim is to explain why people respond differently to severe pollution and environmental degradation. To answer these questions, I rely on oral history, literary analysis, political ecology, and approaches from art studies. Besides being the coordinator of the MA History track Un/Sustainable Societies in Past, Present, and Future, I am a member of the Faculty Council of Arts and the chair of the Young Arts Network (YARN) for 2022-2023.
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i.pesa rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Contemporary History
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Rural Development
Community Development
Cultural Geography
Social Exclusion
Community Development
Cultural Geography
Social Exclusion
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Assistant Professor
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I am a historian of the Modern Middle East. My research and teaching interests include Christian Arab communities of and in the Middle East Middle East, a relational cultural and social history of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine, and minorities in/ diaspora from the Middle East. I am particularly interested in engaging with multilateral transnational connections, still understudied in favour of national historiographies and periodisation.
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karene.sanchez rug.nl
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Professor and Chair Middle Eastern studies
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Politics and religion, with a particular focus on Sunni politics and political opposition in Iraq and Egypt. My current research project (2023-2024), funded by an NWO Open Competitie SGW XS grant, focuses on the reconstruction of the Iraqi city of Mosul from an Iraqi and a Dutch perspective. I focus on reconstruction projects in Mosul by conducting fieldwork and by studying secondary literature and policy reports. Specifically, I look at the political and religious context in which this takes place and the extent to which this complex context of international actors and (local) sectarian politics affects the efficiency and sustainability of the reconstruction efforts. For my previous projects, I focused on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood under the rules of Sadat and Mubarak. My studies have always been primarily based on Arabic journals and newspapers, sources, which proved to be of great relevance for new insights into the movement’s mentality history in the build-up to the events of January 2011 and, in a broader sense, the development of Islamism and political Islam in Egypt and beyond.
In August 2020 my book titled Imagining the Perfect Society in Muslim Brotherhood Journals was published by De Gruyter.
In August 2020 my book titled Imagining the Perfect Society in Muslim Brotherhood Journals was published by De Gruyter.
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Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies
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postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, memory studies, life writing, Middle East studies
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a.sathananthar rug.nl
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Moroccan Jewish History and Migration
European integration and institutions
State theory and institutionalism
Concept analysis and qualitative methods
Italian politics
State theory and institutionalism
Concept analysis and qualitative methods
Italian politics
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p.d.tortola rug.nl
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Associate professor (UHD)
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International strategy and policy advice
International relations management
International relations management
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Senior Policy Advisor Southeast Asia
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Regional Identity, Rural History, U.S. Politics, U.S. History, History of the U.S. South, Political Culture, American Studies, Southern Studies, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. Civil War.
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m.zwiers rug.nl
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Senior Lecturer
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