Susanne Schröter

Susanne Schröter (born 1957) is a contemporary Social Anthropologist focussing primarily on Islam, Gender and Conflict Studies.

Biography

Susanne Schröter is head of a research group on "Contemporary discourses on state and society in the Islamic world" and carries out a research project founded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) entitled "Re-negotiating gender in contemporary Indonesia. Empowerment strategies of Muslim and secular women activists".^[1]^[2]

1990s

Schröter studied

summa cum laude

).

After working as Curator at the Women's Museum, Wiesbaden from 1986 to 1990, she became lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies,

magna cum laude) in Anthropology at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the construction of "masculinity" and "femininity" in Melanesia (Dissertation title: "Männliche Selbsterhaltungsstrategien angesichts der Vorstellung omnipotenter Weiblichkeit – Materialien zur Konstruktion von 'Männlichkeit' und 'Weiblichkeit' in Melanesien").^[1]

From 1995–1997, she was a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz. From 1997–1999, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Frobenius-Institute, Frankfurt. In 1999, she finalized her Habilitation ("Kéo rado – Die Austreibung des Bösen. Ein Beitrag zur Religion und Sozialstruktur der Ngada in Ostindonesien") and received accreditation as Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis on religion and social structure among the Ngada in East Indonesia. In 1999, she was a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz.

2000s

In 2000, she worked as a visiting research fellow at the Department of Anthropology,

Passau University, where she worked until 2008. In 2005, she organized the conference "Islam and Gender in Southeast Asia" at Passau University, Germany. Since 2008, she is professor of anthropology of colonial and postcolonial orders at the Cluster of Excellence "Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt (German Universities Excellence Initiative).^[1]

Schröter is member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam.^[3]

Books

The name of Islam (Im Namen des Islam)

She has studied and criticized the behavior of the radical Muslim minority in Germany and the purpose of this group and has pointed out that she has written the behaviors and actions of this group in the name of Islam.^[4]