Prof. Dr. Ines Michalowski

Current affiliations

  • Team Prof. Michalowski
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Sociology of Religion
  • Sociology of Organizations
  • Organization and Diversity
  • Religion and Migration
  • Religion and Body in the Context of Secularization
  • Citizenship

Academic Education

2002co-tutelle Ph.D. in sociology (Center for the Sociology of Organisations, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) and political science (University of Münster)
2002 - 2005Member of the DFG Graduate School "Migration in Modern Europe", IMIS, University of Osnabrück
1997 - 2001Studies in Ethnography and Sociology of Organizations, Université Paris X - Nanterre and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France

Work Experience

since 2021WZB Fellow, affiliated with the research unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization
since 2019Professor of Sociology of Relgion at the Department of Sociology, Münster University
2008 - 2020Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2017 - 2018Visiting professor for sociology, especially sociology of religion at the University of Göttingen (interim professorship Matthias Koenig)
2015Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard
2014Guest Professor for Migration and Integration Research at the University of Vienna
2008 - 2009Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C.
2005 - 2008Research fellow at the universities of Münster and Osnabrück and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center

Functions and Memberships

since 07/2023Member , Academic committee of the Haifa Lab for Religious Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
since 09/2022Member, Rectorate Research Council, Münster University
since 09/2022Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
since 07/2022Deputy Speaker, Cluster of Excellence Religion & Politics, Münster University
since 05/2022Member, Board of Directors, Center for Religion and Modernity

Publications

Kanol, Eylem; Michalowski, Ines (2023)
In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 0 (online first)(0)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Ines Michalowski (2023)
In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 0 (online first)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Apelt, Maja; Koch, Annika; Michalowski, Ines; Molzberger, Kaspar; Schenk, Liane; Schmidt, Max Oliver (2023)
In: Comparative Migration Studies, 11
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Michalowski, Ines (2022)
In: Soziale Welt, 2022/25(Sonderband)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Harms, Lisa; Michalowski, Ines (2022)
Type of Publication: Web publication (blog article)
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Projects

Duration: 01/11/2024 - 01/10/2027 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Scientific Networks
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster
Duration: since 01/01/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: since 01/12/2020 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/12/2019 - 31/12/2021
Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Doctorates

[Working title] Mosques as spaces of intersectional identity negotiations
Candidate: Isik, Hevidar | Supervisors: Michalowski, Ines
Period of time: 01/11/2024 - today
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
[Working title] “Secularized superstition”? On the complicated relationship between religious transformations and conspiracy beliefs
Candidate: Below, Ruben | Supervisors: Michalowski, Ines
Period of time: 01/10/2022 - today
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
[Working title] Queer Religiosity
Candidate: Nelli Felker | Supervisors: Michalowski, Ines; Röder, Antje
Period of time: 01/04/2020 - today
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster