Advisory Board

How do you address your audience correctly? The Scientific Advisory Board discussed these and other questions at its first meeting in October 2021.

An independent, interdisciplinary committee of renowned experts from the fields of theology, religious studies, philosophy of religion, Jewish studies, and Islamic studies monitors the scientific quality and relevance of BaFID’s research activities by reviewing ongoing projects and evaluating publication plans. The Advisory Board evaluates the Centre’s activities and makes recommendations for the improvement of our work. The chair of the scientific advisory board is the president, Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger of FAU.

 

Members of the Advisory Board are:

  • Prof. Dr. Asma Afsaruddin, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington
  • Prof. Dr. Anna Ayşe Akasoy, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Graduate Center, City University of New York 
  • Dr. Clare Amos, Director and Trustee, The Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association
  • Prof. Dr. Nader El-Bizri, Professor of Philosophy and Civilization Studies at the American University of Beirut
  • Prof. Dr. Aryeh Botwinick, Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Religion Department, Temple University
  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lejla Demiri, Professor of Islamic Theology, Center for Islamic Theology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • Prof. Dr. Carlos Fraenkel, James McGill Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, McGill University  
  • Prof. Dr. Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Director (Directrice d’études) Centre de recherches historiques und Centre d’études juives, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
  • Prof. Dr. Jens Kreinath, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University
  • Prof. Dr. Suleiman Mourad, Professor of Religion, Smith College
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds, Jerome J. Crowle,y and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame  
  • Prof. Dr. Sabine Schmidtke, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  • Sen. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Schreiner, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • Prof. Dr. Ken Seeskin, Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization, Department of Religious Studies, Northwestern University
  • Prof. Dr. David Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Christianity and Islam,  Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Interreligious Relations, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham