M.A. Laura Rowitz
Assistant
- Phone
- +41 31 631 3224
- laura.rowitz@islam.unibe.ch
- Office
- S123
- Postal Address
- Institut für Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie
Lerchenweg 36
3012 Bern
Schweiz
Academic Career
Since 2020 – Research Assistant, Institut für Islamwissenschaft und Neuere Orientalische Philologie, University of Bern
2019-2020 – Research Assistant at Asia Africa Institute, University of Hamburg. Project Coordinator for the teaching project “One Foot in the Past - One in the Future: Young Investigators and the Tradition of Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg”.
2019 – MA in Islamwissenschaft (Islamic Studies), Hamburg University
2014 – BA in „Geschichte, Sprache und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Schwerpunkt Islamwissenschaft“, Hamburg University
Current research
Teaching and research project on the history of Middle Eastern Studies in Hamburg (financed by the Claussen Simon Foundation)
Research interest
History of Labour in Islamicate societies, particularly the Gulf region
Social and Economic History of West Asia and North Africa
History of Middle Eastern Studies