Awards


Mirjam Künkler has received fellowships, grants, and research awards from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the British Academy, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Henry Luce Foundation, the Institute for Social & Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), the Tokyo and Nippon Foundations (SYLFF), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Geisteswissenschaften International, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Thyssen Foundation, the British Institute for Persian Studies (BIPS), the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Columbia University, the University of Oxford, and Princeton University.




  • Since 2008 awarded more than $1.000.000,00 in third party funds.
  • 2010-2012. Invited to serve as guest editor of special issues or symposia by the journals Journal of Law and Religion (published spring 2013), Party Politics (published March 2013), Modern Asian Studies (published spring 2014), The American Behavioral Scientist (forthcoming July 2016), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (issue submitted in January 2015), and Asian Studies Review (issue submitted in March 2015).
  • September 2009. Invited to edit book series Islam in Globalization: Representations and Practices with Ashgate Publishers (declined).
  • January 2015 - . Member of the International Advisory Board to the Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion.
  • Reviewer of book manuscripts (monographs) for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill Publishers, Rowman & Littlefield, Routledge.
  • 2012-2014. Convenor of the Princeton-Oxford research cluster on Traditional Authority and Transnational Religious Networks in Contemporary Shi'ism
  • 2012- present. Member and Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg, Germany.
  • Invited to give lectures at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Georgetown University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Humboldt University Berlin, Yale Law School, Northwestern Law, among others.
  • 2012-2016. Invited for stipendiary fellowships to the Department of Politics and International Relations of Oxford University, United Kingdom; the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), Berlin, Germany; the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands; the Lichtenberg-Kolleg (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences) in Göttingen, Germany; the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies (HCAS) in Leipzig, Germany; and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS).