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Nina Clara Tiesler
BIOGRAFICAL NOTES
Nina Clara Tiesler, Dr. phil. in Comparative Studies of Religion (University of Hanover, Germany, 2004), is a full time Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (Centre of Excellence), working in the areas of Sociology and Anthropology.
Having started research on Muslims in Europe in 1992, she has been affiliated to the European Migration Centre and is now a member of the Bibliographical Network EURISLAM and co-ordinator of the international research networks MEL-net (Muslims in Lusophone Spaces) and FOOTBALL MIGRATION NETWORK (both hosted at ICS-UL). She is research active in the area of religion (especially Islam) and international migration, Sports & Migration and Studies in Leisure & Popular Culture. Currently, she is co-ordinating DIASBOLA, an international project on the role of football among Portuguese Diaspora communities in six different countries, funded by the Foundation of Science and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal), 2007-2010. In 2006, she was a resident fellow at the Bellagio Dialogue on Migration at the Rockefeller Bellagio Study and Conference Centre.
She has published various book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, is author of the book Muslims in Europe: religion and identity politics in new societal settings (in German; Berlin, Vienna, London: LIT-Verlag, 2006), and co-editor of Globalized Football: Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream (London, New York: Routledge, 2008). She was guest editor of special issues of French, Portuguese and English peer-reviewed journals such as ANÁLISE SOCIAL (ICS), LUSOTOPIE (Brill), and SOCCER & SOCIETY (Routledge).
Occasionally, she teaches Sociology of Religion at the University of Hanover and is lecturing at post-graduate courses in Anthropology and Sociology at different faculties in Lisbon and Porto.
At invitation of the coordinator Jorge Sampaio (in his role as High Representative of the United Nations for the Alliance of Civilization, www.unAoC.org ), she has joined the “Circle of Friends/Círculo de Amigos” in July 2007, a Portuguese sub-branch of the AoC which, similar to the “Group of Friends” (composed by states and international organizations), aims to promote inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue among societies, dedicated to globally orientated policy-related questions derived from cultural, religious and ethnic diversity.
(for more details and publications see complete CV in PDF)
