Sarah Dusend

Head of Research and Study & Deputy Managing Director

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room 2.018
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 62446
researchandstudy@dependency.uni-bonn.de

Profile

  • Management and development of research and study programs (MA, PhD, Guest Researcher, Alumni)
    • MA programs: program management, quality management, evaluation representative, curriculum planning, study advisory and students' support, coordination and communication with teaching staff
    • PhD program: program development, quality management, students' consulting and guidance
    • Guest Researcher: program management, advise and support, onboarding
    • Alumni: maintenance of network
  • Development and Implementation of the BCDSS' internationalization strategy
    • Development, implementation and coordination of partnerships
    • Erasmus coordination
  • Third-party funding consulting
  • Coordination and communication with central units of UoB and external partner institutions

I currently focus on women's studies and travel writing in the Iranian and Arab world as well as mobility and pilgrimage in Islam. I am furthermore interested in Afghan and Pakistani contemporary historiography, culture of remembrance (Erinnerungskultur) and identity politics.

2021
PhD in Islamic Studies/ History of the Islamicate and Persianate World

2006–2007
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris

2003–2009
Magister Artium, Islamic Studies/ History of the Islamicate and Persianate World, Political Sciences, and French Language and Literature, University of Bonn, Germany

since 2019
Head of Research and Study and Deputy Managing Director at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies

since 2014
Founding Member and Associate Fellow of the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)

2015–2019
Research associate at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies/Department for Islamic Studies, Bonn University (DFG funded project)

2013–2015
Coordinator of the Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies (BIGS-OAS), Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Bonn University

2009–2013
Coordinator of the Bonn Asia Center (BAZ), Bonn University