Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller
2019 – | W2-Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department “Classical World and Asian Cultures”, Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Teaching in Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC)” |
2016 – 2019 | Head of Emmy Noether Research Group „The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia“, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department “Law & Anthropology“ |
2019 | Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (PLS), Spring Term, working on Daimler & Benz Stiftung project “Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia” |
2018 | Stipendiary Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change (ILSP: LSC), Spring Term |
2017 – 2020 | (Non-Resident) Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS), affiliation for DFG Emmy Noether Project cooperation |
2016 | Stipendiary Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), National University of Singapore (NUS) (August -September) |
2012 – 2016 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Anthropology, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2015 |
Visiting Senior Member, University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, Asian Studies Centre |
2014
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Visiting Fellow, University of Brunei Darussalam, Academy of Brunei Studies |
2013 | DAAD Post-Doc Fellow, Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)
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2009 – 2012 | PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2008 | Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Anthropology, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
Education
2008 – 2012 | PhD in Anthropology (summa cum laude), Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2003 -2008 | Magister Artium (mit Auszeichnung) in Anthropology (major), Philosophy (minor) and Public Law (minor), Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2006 – 2007 | ERASMUS at Leiden University (Netherlands), Southeast Asian Studies & Anthropology |
2018 – 2020 | Daimler und Benz Stiftung, Post-Doctoral Scholarship (grant) |
2018 | John A. Lent Prize, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) |
2016 – 2021 | DFG Emmy Noether Research Group (grant) |
2016 – 2020 | Junge Akademie | Mainz, Akademie der Wissenschaft und der Literatur | Mainz |
2018 | Stipendiary Fellowship, Harvard Law School, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law ans Social Change |
2017 | Travel Grant, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) |
2016 | Stipendiary Fellowship, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore |
2015 | Commendation, Young Scholars Prize Competition 2014, Peer-Reviewed Journal Indonesia and the Malay World, ed. SOAS London |
2015 | Workshop Grant (€8.000), Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt |
2013 | DAAD Post-Doc Program Fellowship, Stanford University |
2012 | “Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen im Fokus“, awarded by President’s Office, Goethe-University Frankfurt |
2012 | Dissertation Prize (Forschungsförderungspreis), Frobenius-Gesellschaft und und Hahn- Hissink’schen Frobenius-Stiftung |
2009 – 2012 | PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt |
2007 | DAAD Scholarship, Short-Term Fieldwork in Brunei for MA Thesis |
2007 | ERASMUS Scholarship, Intensive Program Southeast Asian Studies, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris |
2006 – 2007 | ERASMUS Scholarship, Leiden University |
2004 – 2008 | Scholarship, Nassauischer Zentralstudienfonds (NZF) |
Religion (esp. Islam) and Politics, Bureaucracy, Normative Change, Creative State-Making, Decision-Making, Socio-Legal Studies, Religious Popular Culture, Authoritarianism, Party Politics, Invisible Worlds.
Fieldwork: Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Monograph
- 2014 Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS, Milton Park, Abingdon & New York, NY: Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 2019 (in print). “Brunei’s Shariah Penal Code Order: Punitive Turn or the Art of Non-Punishment?”. Journal in Islamic Law (ed. Harvard Law School, Program in Islamic Law).
- 2018 “Bureaucratic Islam Compared: Classificatory Power and State-ified Religious Meaning-Making in Brunei and Singapore”. Journal of Law and Religion, 33(2) 212-247.
- 2018 “The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia: Transdisciplinary Perspectives” (with K. Steiner). Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38(1) 3-26.
- 2018 “Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy: Bureaucratised Exorcism, Scientisation and the Mainstreaming of Deviant-Declared Practices in Brunei Darussalam”. Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38(1) 141-183.
- 2017 “From Consultancy to Critique: The ‘Success Story’ of Globalized Zakat Management in Malaysia and its Normative Ambiguities”. Globalizations41(1) 81–98.
- 2016 “Paradoxical Normativities in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia: Islamic Law and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration”. Asian Survey, 56(3) 415–441.
- 2016 “Brunei in 2015: Oil Revenues Down, Sharia on the Rise”. Asian Survey, 56(1) (Year-Ender Issue 2015: “Asia in 2015: The Year in Review”, invited): 162–167.
- 2015 “Sharia Law and the Politics of ‘Faith Control’ in Brunei Darussalam: Dynamics of socio-legal change in a Southeast Asian Sultanate”, Internationales Asienforum: International Quarterly for Asian Studies 46(3/4): 313–345.
- 2015 “Islamic Politics and Popular Culture in Malaysia: Negotiating normative change between Shariah Law and electric guitars”, Indonesia and the Malay World 43(127): 318–344.
- 2013 “Post-Islamism or Pop-Islamism? Ethnographic observations of Muslim youth politics in Malaysia”, Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 59: 261–284.
- 2010 “An Internationalist National Islamic Struggle? Narratives of ‘brothers abroad’ in the discursive practices of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)”. South East Asia Research 18(4): 757–791.
Guest-Edited Special Issue
- 2018 The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Journal for Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 38(1). Co-edited with Kerstin Steiner.
- 2020 (in prep.) Social Categorization and Religiously-Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia. (with M. Walton & K. Fogg)
Working Paper
- 2018 “The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia: Conceptual Contours of a Research Project”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper, no. 187.
Book Chapters
- 2019 Pluralism in Brunei’s Constitution? Ethnicity, Religion and the Absolute Monarchy”, in Neo, Jaclyn and Son, Bui Ngoc eds., Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia, Oxford: Hart. 83–113 (co-authored with Kerstin Steiner)
- 2018 “State-Islam Relations in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective“. In: H.C. Günther ed.: Ethics, Politics and Law: East and West. Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz. S. 159–174
- 2017 (repr. 2019) “Ummah Revisited: Anti-Shia Hatred in Malaysia since the Outbreak of the Syrian Civil War”, in Lemiere, Sophie (Hg.) Illusions of Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People (Volume II), Kuala Lumpur: Gerakbudaya. 113–135. (reprint: Amsterdam University Press, 2019)
- 2017 “Die Staatliche Verfolgung von ‘Magiern’ in Brunei Darussalam und Saudi Arabien”, in Schröter, Susanne ed., Normenkonflikte in Pluralistischen Gesellschaften, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. 291–324. (co-authored with O. Beranek)
- 2015 (repr. 2019) “When ‘PAS is HAMAS’ and ‘UMNO acts like Israel’: Localized appropriations of the Palestine conflict in Malaysia”, in Petru, Tomas ed., Islam, Society and Politics in Southeast Asia, Wien: Caesarpress, 77–106. (reprint 2019: Czech Academy of Sciences Press)
- 2015 “Brunei Darussalam”, in Neo, Jaclyn ed., Keeping the Faith: A Study of Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion in ASEAN, Jakarta: Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC), 53–98.
- 2010 “Melayu Islam Beraja: Islam, Staat und politische Kommunikation in Brunei Darussalam“, in Schulze, Fritz und Warnk, Holger ed., Islam und Staat in den Ländern Südostasiens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 147–170.
Articles in Other Journals (not peer-reviewed)
- 2018 “Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Brunei: From Criminalizing Supernatural Healers to the Rise of Bureaucratized Exorcism”, BERITA, Summer 2018, 11–23.
- 2018 “Islamic Authority and the State in Brunei Darussalam”, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (special issue: Islamism in Southeast Asia, ed. Joseph C. Liow), Issue 23 [ed. Kyoto University]
(Japanese Translation) ブルネイ・ダルサラームにおけるイスラム教の権威と国家. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 23. https://kyotoreview.org/japanese/islamic-authority-the-state-in-brunei-darussalam-japanese/
(Malay Translation) Wewenang Islam dan Negara di Brunei Darussalam, Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 23. https://kyotoreview.org/bahasa-indonesia/wewenang-islam-dan-negara-di-brunei-darussalam/
(Thai Translation) อำนาจอิสลามกับรัฐในประเทศบรูไนดารุสซาลาม. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (special issue: Islamism in Southeast Asia, ed. Joseph C. Liow), Issue 23. https://kyotoreview.org/japanese/islamic-authority-the-state-in-brunei-darussalam-japanese/
(Vietnamese Translation) Quyền uy Hồi giáo và Nhà nước ở Brunei Darussalam. Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, Issue 23. https://kyotoreview.org/vietnamese/islamic-authority-the-state-in-brunei-darussalam-vietnamese/
- 2015 “Transit ins Paradies: IS-Rekruten und das Problem ideologischer Terrorismusbekämpfung in Malaysia”, in Schröter, Susanne (ed.) Dossier: Salafismus und Jihadismus, Frankfurt: Frankfurter Forschungszentrum Globaler Islam (FFGI), URL: http://www.ffgi.net/files/dossier/dossier-malaysia-mueller.pdf
- 2009 “‘Save Gaza!‘: Reaktionen auf den Gaza-Konflikt im Diskurs der Islamischen Partei von Malaysia (PAS)“, Südostasien, 4: 38–42.
Book Reviews
- 2017 “Sandra Khor Manickam (2015): ‘Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya’, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press”. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 18 (1): 93–95.
- 2010 “Joseph C. Liow (2009): ‘Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia’, New York: Oxford University Press”. South East Asia Research, 18(3): 616–620
Enyclopedia Entries
- 2019 (accepted, in print) “Malaysia“. Encyclopedia of Islam (EI), Third Edition (ed. Gudrun Krämer, Nico Kaptein et al.). Leiden: Brill. (with T.G. Biro)
- 2019 (accepted, in print) “Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS)”. Encyclopedia of Islam (EI), Third Edition. Leiden: Brill.
- September 2019: Co-Organizer (with Iza Hussin) Workshop: Political Reason and Unreason in South and Southeast Asia – Politics and the Supernatural, University of Cambridge
- April 2019: Co-Organizer (with Kristen Stilt & Salma Waheedi) Workshop: Bureaucratizing Diversity in Muslim Southeast Asia and Beyond, Harvard University
- February 2019: Co-Organizer (with Svenja Nagel, Rebekka Schirner et al.) Workshop: SPRACHE MACHT MAGIE, Junge Akademie | Mainz
- January 2019: Co-Organizer (with Ursula Rao) Workshop: Governance and Processes of Bureaucratization, Leipzig University
- September 2018: Co-Organizer (with Jaclyn Neo & Arif Jamal) Workshop: The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia (Emmy Noether Fieldwork Break Meeting)
- June 2018: Co-Organizer (with Matthew Walton & Kevin Fogg) Workshop “Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia”
- September 2017: Organizer Workshop Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- August 2017: Co-Organizer (with Marie-Claire Foblets & Katayoon Alidadi) Conference: (Re)designing Justice for Plural Societies: Accommodative Practices Put to the Test, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department ‘Law & Anthropology’
- 2017-2018: Organizer of Guest Lecture Series “The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
- August 2015: Co-Organizer (with Susanne Schröter): “Islamism and the State: Contested Normativities in the Muslim World. Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt
- December 2013: Co-Organizer (with Susanne Schröter) Conference: Islamism versus Post-Islamism? Mapping Topographies of Islamic Political and Cultural Practices and Discourses, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt
- July 2012: Co-Organizer (with Susanne Schröter) Workshop “Following the Path of the Prophet: Islamic Piety, Social Movements, Political Organizations”, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad-Homburg
- September 2009: Co-Organizer (with Katja Rieck) Workshop Anthropology and the “Formation of Normative Orders”: A Marriage of Convenience?, Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt
- 26.02.2020 (sched.) National University of Singapore, Department of Malay Studies
- 30.01.2020 (sched.) University of Cambridge, Pembroke College
- 18.10.2019 Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Collège d’etudes mondiales, EHESS Paris (Workshop “Creative State-Making and Unintended Consequences of Islamization”)
- 11.10.2019 Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (Workshop “Political Reason and Unreason in South and Southeast Asia”)
- 24.06.2019 Universität Bielefeld, Soziologie (Understanding Asia Colloquium)
- 14.06.2019 Universität Göttingen (ERC Colloquium „Private Pieties“)
- 06.06.2019 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (Lecture Series “Islam and the New Spirit of Capitalism”)
- 04.04.2019 Harvard Law School, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World (Workshop “Bureaucratizing Diversity in Muslim Southeast Asia and Beyond)
- 28.03.2019 Cornell University, Southeast Asia program (Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture)
- 27.03.2019 Cornell University, Alice Cook House (Dinner Talk)
- 23.03.2019 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Denver, CO
- 20.02.2019 Junge Akademie Mainz (Workshop “SPRACHE MACHT MAGIE“)
- 04.12.2019 Leiden University & Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (KITLV-LUCIS Colloquium)
- 30.11.2019 Gesellschaft für Islamisches Recht & Vereniging tot Bestudering van het Recht van de Islam en het Midden Oosten Joint Annual Conference, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
- 05.11.2018 NIAS Council Annual Conference, Tromsø, Norwa
- 31.10.2018 Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute, Czech Republic (Roundtable “Malaysia in Transition”)
- 17.09.2018 AICIS Conference, Keynote Speech, Palu, Indonesia
- 13.09.2018 National University of Singapore, Centre for Asian Legal Studies (Workshop “Bureaucratization of Islam”)
- 22.06.2018 DGFSKA Regionalgruppe Südostasien, Universität Heidelberg
- 20.06.2018 Asian Dynamics Conference, University of Copenhagen
- 04.06.2018 University of Oxford, Asian Studies Centre (Workshop “Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia”)
- 02.06.2018 Royal Anthropological Institute & SOAS Conference, British Museum, London
- 25.04.2018 Bryant University, USA
- 17.04.2018 Harvard University, Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change
- 11.04.2018 University of California Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
- 10.04.2018 Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center
- 23.03.2018 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Washington, DC
- 30.11.2017 Leibnitz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
- 21.11.2017 Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (ZIRS), MLU Halle-Wittenberg
- 17.10.2017 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Lecture for Advisory Board Meeting)
- 28.09.2017 Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg (Junge Akademie Mainz Meeting)
- 15.09.2017 Universität Zürich (UZH), Institut für Sozialanthropologie (Southeast Asia Meet-Up)
- 07.09.2017 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Workshop “Conceptualizing ‘The Bureaucratization of Islam’“)
- 18.08.2017 EuroSEAS Conference University of Oxford (paper presentation)
- 17.08.2017 EuroSEAS Conference University of Oxford (roundtable presentation)
- 28.07.2017 National University of Singapore (NUS), Centre for Asian Legal Studies (Workshop “Constitutional Pluralism in Southeast Asia”)
- 25.06.2017 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) “AAS-in-Asia” Conference, Seoul
- 16.06.2017 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Lecture for Consultative Committee Meeting)
- 05.05.2017 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Frankfurter Forschungszentrum Globaler Islam (Konferenz „Scharia und Grundgesetz“)
- 23.03.2017 Association for Asian Studies Conference, Toronto
- 01.02.2017 University of Brunei Darussalam, Academy of Brunei Studies (presented in Malay language)
- 13.01.2017 Universität Leipzig, Orientalisches Institut
- 29.11.2016 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Werkstatt Series)
- 25.11.2016 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt (Annual Conference)
- 23.11.2016 University of Oxford, Asian Studies Centre
- 14.10.2016 Czech Academy of Sciences (6th Prague Conference on Southeast Asian Studies)
- 12.08.2016 National University of Singapore (CALS), Centre for Asian Legal Studies
- 16.06.2016 Leiden University & KITLV Institute (“Southeast Asia Update”)
- 26.05.2016 Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin (Workshop „Islam, Urban Life and the Production of Moral Norms”)
- 08.12.2015 Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Ethnologie
- 01.12.2015 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology / MLU Halle-Wittenberg (Joint Institutes’ Colloquium)
- 06.10.2015 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt (Workshop “Islamism and the State”)
- 27.05.2015 University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
- 26.05.2015 University of Oxford, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
- 05.05.2015 Czech Academy of Sciences, Oriental Institute
- 04.05.2015 Prague Metropolitan University, Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies
- 17.03.2015 Universität Zürich (UZH), Institut für Sozialanthropologie
- 10.02.2015 Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
- 04.02.2015 University of Oxford, Asian Studies Centre
- 21.11.2014 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt (Annual Conference)
- 06.11.2014 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt (FFGI Colloquium)
- 23.10.2014 Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF), Bielefeld (Workshop „Bureaucratization of Islam in Muslim States and Societies“)
- 02.10.2014 National University of Singapore (NUS), Centre for Asian Legal Studies
- 08.08.2014 Fourth Global International Studies Conference (WISC), Frankfurt
- 04.05.2014 Human Rights Ressource Centre (HRRC), Bangkok (Project Workshop)
- 23.03.2014 Southeast Asian Studies Symposium, University of Oxford, Keble College
- 15.12.2013 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt (Workshop “Islamism vs. Post-Islamism?”)
- 08.11.2013 Prague Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, Prague Metropolitan Unicersity
- 04.10.2013 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Conference, Mainz
- 24.09.2013 Deutscher Orientalistentag Conference, Münster
- 22.04.2013 University of California Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
- 26.03.2013 University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman (with S. Schröter)
- 18.03.2013 National University of Singapore (NUS), Asia Research Institute (ARI) (with S. Schröter)
- 09.03.2013 Southeast Asia Service and Leadership Network (SEALnet) Inaugural Conference, Stanford University
- 26.02.2013 Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Centre (APARC), Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF)
- 07.07.2012 Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad-Homburg (Workshop “Following the Path of the Prophet”)
- 03.07.2012 Schülercampus 2012, Goethe-University Frankfurt
- 11.03.2011 4th Prague Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, Prague Metropolitan University
- 19.02.2011 Weingartener Asiengespräche, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
- 26.08.2010 Eurpean Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Maynooth University
- 19.07.2010 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders” (Workshop “Normative Ordnungen in der Spannung zwischen Universalität und Partikularität”)
- 02.10.2009 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Conference, Frankfurt
- 11.07.2009 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders” (Workshop “Frankfurter Schule”)
- 14.09.2009 Cluster of Excellence “Formation of Normative Orders” (Workshop “Anthropology and the ‘Formation of Normative Orders’”)
- 09.07.2009 Goethe-University Frankfurt (Colloquium “State and Society in the Muslim World”)
- 06.06.2008 Goethe-University Frankfurt, Department of Southeast Asian Studies (Conference “Islam und Staat in den Ländern Südostasiens)
- 22.03.2020 (sched.) Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Boston (Roundtable: “Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia”, with M. Walton & K. Fogg)
- 23.03.2019 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Denver (Roundtable: “Rising Messiahs and Fallen Heroes: Charismatic Politics and Power in Southeast Asia”, with S. Lemiere)
- 17.08.2017 European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), University of Oxford (Panel “Bureaucratizing the Shar’ia; Socio-Legal Dimensions of Islamic Governance in Southeast Asia”, with K. Steiner)
- 27.06.2017 AAS-in-Asia Conference, Seoul (Panel: “Between National Histories and Transnational Trends: Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia”)
- 23.03.2017 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Washington, DC (Panel: “Contesting Religious Authority in Asia”, with M. Walton)
- 03.10.2013 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Conference, Mainz (Panel: ”Exploring the Intersections between Advertising, Anthropology and Popular Culture“, with U. Röschenthaler)
- 15.09.2011 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Conference, Vienna (Panel: ”Negotiating Islam: Between Culture and Religion“, with K. Rieck)
- 26.08.2010 European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Conference, Maynooth (Panel: “Imagining Disorder, Engendering Change“)
- 02.10.2009 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Conference, Frankfurt (Panel: ”Engaging Social Change: Imagination and Appropriation in a Glocalised World“, with K. Rieck)
WS 2019/20 | Lecture “Introduction to Anthropology: Decision-Making, Culture and Embedded Agency”, Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
WS 2019/20 | Lecture “Decision-Making Across Cultures: Interdisciplinary Methodologies” (co-taught with Stephanie Homola et al.), Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
SoSe 2019 | Guest-Teaching in Graduate Students Course “Human Rights Advocacy in the Muslim World” (Salma Waheedi), Harvard Law School, USA. 01.04.2019 |
SoSe 2019 | Guest-Teaching in BA/MA Course “Religion in World Affairs” (Jeremy Menchik), Boston University, USA. 02.04.2019 |
WS 2018/19 | Teaching Session (“Legal Anthropology“) in Anthropology: Advanced Theory Course (PhD-level), Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
WS 2018/19 | Seminar “Staat, Religion und Soziale Kategorisierung in Südostasien” (B.A.), Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg |
SoSo 2017 | Reading Group “The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia” (PhD-Level), MPI for Social Anthropology |
SoSo 2017 | Seminar “Die Bürokratisierung des Islam: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven” (B.A.-Level), Institut für Ethnologie & Orientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig |
SoSo 2017 | Seminar “Anthropology of Bureaucracy: Einführung in die ethnologische Bürokratieforschung” (B.A.), Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. (Weekly) |
SoSo 2016 | Seminar “Sharia Politics in Southeast Asia“ (B.A.), Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg |
WS 2015/16 | Seminar “Islam, Politik und Populärkultur in Südostasien“ (B.A.), Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes-Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz |
WS 2015/16 | Guest Teaching in Seminar “Law and Religion“ (Arif Jamal), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 30.09.2014 |
WS 2013/14 | Proseminar “Einführung in die Rechtsethnologie: The Anthropology of Law“ (B.A. and M.A.), Institut für Ethnologie, GU-Frankfurt |
WS 2012/13 | Proseminar “Einführung in die Ethnographie von Malaysia und Brunei Darussalam“ (B.A. and M.A.), Institut für Ethnologie, GU-Frankfurt |
WS 2012/13 | Seminar including Guest Lectures “Berufsfelder der Ethnologie“ (B.A. and M.A.), Institut für Ethnologie, GU-Frankfurt (with S. Schröter) |
SoSo 2012 | Proseminar “Einführung in die Politische Ethnologie“ (B.A.- and Magister Artium-Level), Institut für Ethnologie, GU-Frankfurt |
SoSo 2008/9 | Project Seminar “Islam in Geschichte und Gegenwart“ (Magister Artium), Institut für Ethnologie, GU-Frankfurt (with S. Schröter) |
SoSo 2007/8 | Seminar “Werbewelten: Werbung aus ethnologischer Sicht II“ (Magister Artium) (leading role in Syllabus and teaching; with U. Röschenthaler), GU-Frankfurt |
- Interview: “What International Criticism of Brunei’s Harsh New Penal Code Overlooks”. World Politics Review (WPR) https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/27811/what-international-criticism-of-brunei-s-harsh-new-penal-code-overlooks
- Video Interview (Academic Publication): “How has the Islamic Party of Malaysia’s Stance towards Popular Culture Evolved?”. Latest Thinking (LT.org) DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10426
- 2019 Cited in “Inside the Silent Nation of Brunei”, BBC, May 10, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Western Boycotts Soften Brunei’s Sharia Law”, Asia Times, May 7, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Brunei once held off on strict Islamic Law to stay in a U.S. backed trade pact. Then Trump pulled out ”, Washington Post, April 12, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Pengalaman, Pendekatan Singapura Urus Agama Dikongsi Di Harvard” (=Singapore’s Experience and Approach to Religious Administration Presented at Harvard), Berita Harian, p. 10, May 2, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Is Brunei’s Sharia Law Just for Show?”, Asia Times, April 5, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Der Sultan droht mit dem Schwert”, Spiegel Online, March 29, 2019.
- 2019 Cited in “Le Pietre Del Sultano”, Grazia, p. 50, May, 2019.
- 2018 Cited in “How Islamic Does Brunei want to be?”, Asia Times, April 23, 2018.
- 2015 Cited in “IS Seeking a Foothold in Southeast Asia”, Deutsche Welle, June 24, http://www.dw.com/en/is-seeking-a-foothold-in-southeast-asia/a-18538632 (German also avail.)
- 2015 Review of Lecture Islamist Politics and Popular Culture in Malaysia: Negotiating Normative Change between Sharia Law and Electric Guitars at SOAS London: “Reflections: Islamists’ Pop-Culture”, Monsoon Book Club, June 4, http://www.monsoonsbookclub.com/2015/06/05/reflections-islamists-pop-culture-oley-hudud-allah/
- 2014 Cited in newspaper article: “Sultan der Steinzeit: Der einst reichste Mann der Welt will in seinem Land die Scharia durchsetzen“. Welt am Sonntag, May 11.
- 2014 “Heavy Metal zum Lobe Allahs: Der Frankfurter Ethnologe Dominik Müller hat in Malaysia das Phänomen des Pop-Islamismus studiert“, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), April 22, p. 44.
- 2013 Interview: “Die E-Gitarre als Missionsinstrument: Fragen an den Ethnologen Dr. Dominik Müller zum Post- und Pop-Islamismus in Malaysia”, UniReport, 46 (5): 9.
- 2013 Cited in: “Vollstrecker des göttlichen Willens“, Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), October 26, p. 10. (reprinted in Berner Zeitung and Tagesanzeiger)
- (2013) Radio Interview: “Der Islam im modernen Gewand: Der politische Islam und die Popkultur“ (Islam in a Modern Form: Political Islam and Pop-Culture), Deutschlandfunk, October 3.
- (2011) Mentioned in: “Das moderne Asien“ (Modern Asia), Christ in der Gegenwart (Herder), 12/2011.
- Member, Kollegium, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017-2019
- Member, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (ZIRS), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2017-2019
- Chief Editor, BERITA, Official Publication of the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group (MSB), Association for Asian Studies (AAS), since 2018
- Editorial Board Member, Asian Survey (University of California Press)
- Coordinator for ERASMUS, PROMOS and International Cooperation, Institut für Ethnologie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (2012-2013)
Asian Ethnicity, Asian Survey, Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Paper Series , Paideuma: Mitteilungen für Kulturkunde, Palgrave MacMillan, South East Asian Studies, The Pacific Review.
- Junge Akademie Mainz
- Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
- AAS Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA)
- Frobenius-Gesellschaft für kulturanthropologische Forschung
- Daimler und Benz Stiftung Alumni-Verein
- Antonian Alumni Community, University of Oxford
- Deutscher Hochschulverband