Saskia Schäfer

Saskia Schäfer's research examines democracy, religious nationalism, and minority politics from a comparative perspective. She currently heads the research group “Democratic Religion,” which examines how religious education in political education can strengthen democracy and counteract anti-Semitism, racism, and related forms of discrimination. Before joining Humboldt University, she held postdoctoral positions at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, both at Columbia University in New York City, as well as at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in political science from the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin in collaboration with the multidisciplinary graduate school “Muslim Cultures and Societies.”