Dr Aščerić-Todd is Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests are in cultural and religious history of the Ottoman Empire, especially Ottoman Europe and the Balkans. She is particularly interested in Sufism and dervish orders and interfaith relations in the Ottoman Empire and wider Middle East during the Ottoman period.
Stanisław Grodź was previously a lecturer in the Department of the Study of Religion and of Missiology, Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and is currently based at the Anthropos Institute in Sankt Augustin, Bonn.
Stan studied theology and the study of religions (MTh, KUL 1994 / SOAS London 1997-1998 / MA in Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham 1999 / ThD, KUL 2003); he spent three-years in Ghana (1988-1990; 2006) as a member of the Divine Word Missionaries (SVD). His research focuses on the history and contemporary issues of Muslim-Christian relations, especially in Africa and Europe; trends of African Christian theology; interaction between religions in Africa; interreligious dialogue.
He has published Afrykanska chrystologia na tle rodzimego kontekstu kulturowego [African Christology in Its Indigenous Cultural Context] (Lublin: TN KUL 2005; based on his ThD thesis), coedited (with Gina G. Smith) Religion, Ethnicity and Transcultural Migration between West Africa and Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2014) and published over 40 articles in Polish and English (in edited books and periodicals).
Dr Soldat is a Research Associate at the Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CCCEE).
Her research interests include power in Old Russia; violence in the early modern period; German pamphlets about the Russians and Turks, and about Vlad III Dracula (Vlad the Impaler); the life and times of Ivan the Terrible.
Her book Erschreckende Geschichten in der Darstellung von Moskovitern und Osmanen in den deutschen Flugschriften des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts – (Stories of Atrocities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century German Pamphlets About the Russians and Turks) was published in 2014 by Lewiston, Queenston & Lampeter.
CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, Germany and Austro-Hungary
Catherina Wenzel is Professor of Religious Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
