Service and affiliations

Künkler is a fellow of the "Women Creating Change" Project on Gender, Religion, and Law in Muslim Societies at Columbia University, New York, NY, and co-PI of the "Iran Social Science Data Portal" funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion, a Member of the MESA Committee on Academic Freedom, deputy chair of the Scientific Advisory Council for the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg, and a former Member of the Board of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).

In the past, she has been the co-convener of a two-year Oxford-Princeton research cluster on "Traditional authority and transnational religious networks in contemporary Shi'i Islam," and in 2014 was a PI of the international research group on "Religion and Constitutionalism" at the Institute of Advanced Study, Bielefeld (ZIF).

Künkler has been a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tehran, Iran; the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta; the Islamic State University (UIN), Alauddin Makassar (Sulawesi), Indonesia; the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ), Spain; the Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies at the Free University in Berlin; the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB); and the Politics Department at the University of Oxford, and most recently the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, KITLV).