Sarah Riebel joins Working Group

Since April 2020, Sarah Riebel, MA has joined the Working Group Political Anthropology. She will begin an anthropological PhD project with a regional focus on Myanmar: "Harmonious Coexistence? Interfaith dialogue between (ethno-)religious communities, NGOs and the state in Myanmar".

In her project she investigates the interfaith dialogue in Myanmar as a particularly prominent example of ‘harmony ideology’ (Nader 1990). Sarah is scheduled to carry out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar, critically examining the entanglement of religion and ethnicity in the field of the interfaith movement.

To learn more about Sarah Riebels PhD project click here.