Social Historian with PhD in Islamic Studies

Topic of PhD - "Power, Authority and Social Order in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Transoxania"
Field Research and Archival Research in India, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Historical Research Combined with Methodes from the Field of Social Sciences
Work with Manuscripts and Documents in Persian

"The Consistency of Patronage. Networks and Power Brokers of the 'Arzbegi-Clan' of Kunduz," in Local Politics in Afghanistan. A Century of Intervention in the Social Order, ed. Conrad Schetter (London/New York: Hurst Company & Columbia University Press, 2013), 59-75. with Katja Mielke and Conrad Schetter: Dimensions of Social Order. Empirical Fact, Analytical Framework and Boundary Notion, ZEF Working Paper Series Nr. 78 (2011). "Continuity and Hiatus. Structural Patterns of Iran's Afghanistan Policy," in Internationales Asienforum 40 (2009), 11-38.

1. Power Structures in the Eastern Part of the Islamic World
2. Regionalism and Mentap Mapping in Afghanistan
3. Iran's Foreign Relations (with regard to its eastern neighbors)

Assistant Professor, University of Bamberg