Staff - 3rd phase of research

Dr. des. Laila Prager

retired

Main fields of research:

The Middle East (Mashreq: mainly Southern Turkey, Jordan, Syria) • Muslim Migrants in Germany (Alawis/ Nusairies and Palestinian) • Oral History • Gender and Kinship • Alawi Cosmology • Ritual change • Migration and Transnationalism.

Since February 2009 researcher at the CRC 586 "Difference and Integration" • February 2007 until July 2009 researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the WWU-University in Münster (DFG-Project: The social religious identity and inter-religious relations of the Alawi/Nusairy in Turkey (Hatay/Cukurova)". Conducted field research in Turkey, Germany, Syria, and Jordan • 2009 submission of the PhD-Thesis: "The community of the House": Religion, marriage strategies, and transnational Identity among the Alawi/ Nusairy migrants in Germany. [in German: Die Gemeinschaft des Hauses". Religion, Heiratsstrategien, und transnationale Identität türkischer Alawi/Nusairi-Migranten in Deutschland • 2005 - 2009 PhD studies in Ethnology and Modern History • 2005 Master-thesis: "The Alawi (Turkey) kinship system: an empirical ethnological survey." [in German: Das Verwandtschaftssystem der Alawiten (Türkei): eine empirisch-ethnologische Untersuchung." • Feb.-April 2005 Internship at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Egypt) • 1998 – 2005 Study of Ethnology (HF), Modern History and Pre-History at the WWU-University of Münster (Germany), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (France),  and in Jordan University Amman (Jordan).

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen:

Âmes sexuées et idées de procréation chez les Alawites/ Nousairites (en Turquie); accepted for publication by the Journal: Anthropology of the Middle East (to be published 2010).

"A society of wives without husbands"- Male Migration and the Refashioning of Female Gender Roles among the Alawi/Nusairy (Hatay, Turkey) (submitted for publication).

 “Repräsentation der Beduinenidentität", in Sandra Calkins / Jörg Gertel (ed.), Nomaden in  unserer Welt, Stuttgart: Reichert (in preparation).