Dominik MÜLLER
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political and Legal Anthropology
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Visiting Research Fellow
July 2016 - August 2016

Dominik MÜLLER studied Cultural Anthropology, Law and Philosophy at Goethe-University Frankfurt and Leiden University (2003-2008) and obtained his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from Frankfurt in 2012, where he presently works as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political and Legal Anthropology. He held fellowships and visiting positions at Stanford University (2013), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (2014), and the University of Oxford (2015). He also did research for the Jakarta-based Human Rights Resource Centre (HRRC). His research has been published by peer-reviewed journals such as Asian Survey, Globalizations, Indonesia and the Malay World, Internationales Asienforum: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Paideuma, and South East Asia Research. His PhD thesis received the Frobenius Society's Award for Germany's best anthropological dissertation of 2012 and was published by Routledge in 2014 (Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS). In 2016, he was appointed as a member of the "Young Academy" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany). Müller is presently conducting an anthropological research project examining the work of state-based Islamic legal and administrative institutions in Southeast Asia, particularly in Brunei and Singapore.