Associate Fellows
Sarah Dusend holds a PhD in Islamic Studies/ History of the Islamicate and Persianate World. She received an M.A. degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science and French Language and Literature from the University of Bonn and studied Arabic and Persian at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris as well as Arabic in Damascus. After holding various positions in academic management, she is currently Deputy Managing Director of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn, where she is responsible for research, teaching and internationalization.
In addition to her research in the fields of Women’s Studies and travel writing in the Persianate and Arab world as well as mobility and pilgrimage in Islam, she is interested in knowledge production and circulation, reconciliation and transitional justice, and Dependency and Slavery Studies.
Iran; Afghanistan; Pakistan; knowledge circulation; dependency and slavery studies; legacies, reconciliation and transitional justice; gender and intersectionality; life writing
(2017): ‘Self-censorship as a coping strategy for engaging in society: Some reflections on the changing worlds of Iranian women at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries’, in: Conermann, S. et al. (ed): Can Freedom Be Unlimited? Examples of Censorship in Middle Eastern Societies in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Berlin, pp. 103-125.
(2013): ‘Pilgern nach Mekka – zur Reisewirklichkeit einer qajarischen Prinzessin und den Funktionen ihres Pilgerberichtes Rūznāme-ye safar-e ʿatabāt va-Mekkeh’, in: Conermann, S./ Agai, B. (ed.): Wenn einer eine Reise tut, hat er was zu erzählen“ Präfiguration – Konfiguration – Refiguration in muslimischen Reiseberichten vom Ende des 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, pp. 75-118.
(2010): Solidarische Vernetzung, gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt und die Rolle der Frau: Die Debatten und Ergebnisse des Kongresses der Orientalischen Frauen in Teheran 1932, Berlin.
