Insights@MPIMMG

Vanessa Rau is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity specializing in migration, diversity and the politics of difference, particularly in the context of religion and secularism, disability, race as well as gender and sexuality. more

Victoria Kumala Sakti is a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Research Group, “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, since May 2018.  more

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Steven Vertovec is Founding Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic  Diversity, Göttingen, Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen, and Supernumerary Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. more

Elisa Lanari is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, where she is carrying out the project, “Diversity and the afterlives of welcome in Italian mountain towns”. more

Eloisa Harris is a post-doctoral researcher at the department for Socio-Cultural Diversity from 2021 until 2023. Her research focuses on the politics behind immigration and social policy reforms in western Europe. Prior to joining the MPI-MMG, Eloisa was a doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen (BIGSSS). She studied Political Science, Philosophy and Economics in Warwick, Vienna and Zürich. more

Dekel Peretz is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology of Heidelberg University. His current research focuses on Muslim-Jewish encounters in Berlin within the framework of the ORA and DFG funded joint research project: “Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: religion, culture and social model.” more

Jagat Sohail is a doctoral student at the department of anthropology, Princeton University. Sohail is a cultural anthropologist working in the intersections of political economy, economic anthropology and psychological anthropology, particularly as they relate to the field of global migration. more

Megha Amrith is the leader of the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” at MPI-MMG. Her research focuses on migrant labor, care, ageing, inequalities, belonging and citizenship, primarily in Southeast Asia, but also drawing upon comparative ethnographic perspectives.  more

Sanja Bökle was a Doctoral Research Fellow in the research project “Civil Society Organizations and the Challenges of Migration: Agents of Change (ZOMiDi)”. Sanja studied international development studies at the University of Vienna and the Universidad de la República Uruguay, and worked as a Student Assistant at the Department for Development Cooperation and Development Politics at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Vienna. more

Tinashe Chimbidzikai was a Doctoral Research Fellow at SCD, and registered as a joint Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Gottingen University and the African Studies Centre, Leiden. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Zimbabwe before joining the public service and the NGO sector. more

Ulrike Bialas is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity. Before coming to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Ulrike completed a PhD in Sociology at Princeton University and a BA and MA in Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. more

Farhan Samanani completed his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 2017, having been a Gates Cambridge Scholar. There, his Ph.D. focused on how residents of the superdiverse London neighbourhood of Kilburn understood and attempted to shape forms of community. After his doctorate he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Urban Studies at the University of Oxford on a project examining the impacts of austerity on first-time parents. From 2018 to 2022, he worked as a research associate at MPI-MMG. more