Petra Klug

|||Academic Career
2001 – 2007 Master’s degree (Magistra Artium) in Sociology and Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig
2008 – 2010 Master’s degree (Master of Arts) in the Scientific Study of Religion, University of Leipzig
2008 – 2012 Guest Student at the Institute for Eastern Studies, University of Leipzig
2008 – 2010 Graduate Assistant at the Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion and at the Institute for Sociology
2010/11 Coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig
2011 – 2014 Recipient of a PhD-Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
Member of the DFG-Research Training Group on Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics
2012/13 Visiting Scholar at Pitzer College, Claremont, USA
Visiting Scholar at University of Texas, Austin, USA
Since 2014 Research Associate at University of Bremen

|||Main Areas of Research
· Theory of Sociology of Religion and Religious Normation
· Religion and Secularity in the U.S.
· Sociology of Islamic Societies
· The German Discourse on Islam
· The Sociology of Discrimination: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Sexism, Homophobia
· Feminism and Human Rights in Modern and Postmodern Thought
· Qualitative Research Methods

|||Workshops
(2014): Islam and Human Rights (for Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin)
(2012): (Queer-) Feminist Perspectives on Islam and Gender (for fem*camp Leipzig and others)
(2010): What is Discrimination? (for the Students Council of the University of Leipzig)

|||Teaching Assignments
(Summer 2015): The Religious Landscape of the US, University of Bremen, Department of Religious Studies
(Winter 2014): Religion and Gender, University of Bremen, Department of Religious Studies
(Summer 2014): Religion and Nonreligion, University of Bremen, Department of Religious Studies
(Winter 2011): Human Rights and Islam, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Institute of Science of Religion, Institute of Islamic Studies and Iranian Studies
(Winter 2010): Qualitative Research Methods (with Prof. Helena Flam and others), University of Leipzig, Institute of Sociology
(Winter 2009): Anti-Semitism and Racial [Völkische] Religions (with Dr. Heinz Mürmel and Sandra Groß), University of Leipzig, Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion
(Winter 2008): Colloquium for Master-Candidates (with Prof. Helena Flam and others), University of Leipzig, Institute of Sociology

|||For a list of Publications and Lectures, please visit: https://bremen.academia.edu/PetraKlug