Research interests

• Social constructivism according to Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman
• Apprehending sociology according to Hartmut Esser and frame-concept
• Lifeworld according to Alfred Schütz
• Sociology of knowledge
• Sociology of religion
• Islamic studies: general knowledge about Islam and islamic everyday culture
• Tajikistan

Current research project

Negotiating individual concepts of Islam in Tajikistan – The handling of local with competing systems of meaning and value and its external perception

Scientific career

06/2011-06/2015 Research fellow, Department of Geography at the University of Cologne

10/2005-06/2011 Studies in Geographie, Islamic studies and Scandinavian studies, University of Cologne, Master Thesis „The role of Islam in the process of nation-building in the post-soviet states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan“

Scientific publication

Tiller, P. & Herbers, H. 2013: „The development-process of Islam in post-Soviet Tajikistan” as figuration according to Norbert Elias? An initial approach. Crossroads Asia Working Paper Series, 8.

Membership

Associated member of the competence-network Crossroads Asia, funded by the BMBF

Teaching experience

Organization and co-moderation of advanced course „Central Asia between regional and post-regional development“ for Bachelor and Master degree

PhD Project

Kompetenznetzwerk Crossroads Asia

Re-Islamisierung zwischen staatlichem Diktat und global Muslim network