Raphael Susewind University of Bielefeld and University of Oxford

Raphael Susewind is currently Associate of the Contemporary South Asia Studies Programme, University of Oxford, Oxford and Doctoral Candidate in Social Anthropology, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He was earlier Research Fellow in Comparative Politics and International Development Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany.

In his studies, teaching and research, he explores the various relations between politics, religion and belonging and between development and violent conflict in South Asia. He has published articles on Muslim peace activists in Gujarat and on India’s diplomacy vis-à-vis Bangladesh, and currently explores Muslim belonging and contemporary diversity in Lucknow, in affiliation with the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.