Jens Schönstedt

Jens Schönstedt is a research associate at FAU Research Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (FAU EZIRE), working under the supervision of Dr. Jörn Thielmann. He completed his BSc in Geography (2019) at the University of Münster and his MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2024) at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

As part of the International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now”, he is preparing his doctoral research on belonging and home-making in the in-between focusing on the Bosniak community in and from the Sandžak border region.

• Bosniak (mosque)communities in Germany, Austria, and Serbia
• Collective memory and identity formations in superdiverse societies
• Migration and transregional networks
• Anthropology and history of Islam in Europe
• Oral history; biographical research
• Cartography; story mapping

• together Leis, T. (2025): Germany (country survey). In: Alibašić, A. et al. (Hg.): Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (16). Leiden: Brill. 298-315.
• together with Linke, T. et al. (2024): Germany (country survey). In: Akgönül, A. et al. (Hg.): Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (15). Leiden: Brill. 282-298.
• together with Jonker, G. et al. (2022): Turkish Mosque Archives in Industrial Towns in Southern Germany. An Ethnographic Survey. Journal of Muslims in Europe. 11(3). 369-386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22117954-bja10062

• eight thematic and topographic maps. In: Hartung, J.-P. (2024): The Pashtun Borderland. A Religious and Cultural History of the Taliban. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.