International Academic Steering Committee

Ines Michalowski, since 2019 Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Department of Sociology, University of Münster. Deputy Director of the Münster Cluster of Excellence Religion & Politics. Joint PhD (2007) from Sciences Po Paris (Centre de Sociologie des Organisations) and the University of Münster. 2008-2019 Research fellow at the Department of Migration, Integration and Transnationalization of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Visiting fellowships in Washington DC, Boston, Vienna and Paris.

Research interests: accommodation of religious diversity, organizational approaches to religious accommodation, international comparisons, religious and secular body politics, citizenship and national belonging. Recent publications include: Kanol, Eylem & Ines Michalowski. 2023.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religiosity: Evidence from Germany. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion: 1–19. doi: 10.1111/jssr.12834 (open access). Apelt, Maja; Koch, Annika; Michalowski, Ines; Molzberger, Kaspar; Schenk, Liane; Schmidt, Max Oliver. 2023.

How organisations regulate Muslim body practices: a comparison of schools, hospitals, and swimming pools. Comparative Migration Studies 11: 1–19.

doi: open access.