Mirjam Kuenkler
Mirjam Künkler, (Ph.D. Columbia University) teaches Middle Eastern Politics at Princeton University. Kuenkler's expertise is in Iranian and Indonesian politics. Künkler has published widely on religion-state relations, law, party politics, social movements, and female Islamic authority in Iran and Indonesia. She is the principal-investigator of the "Iran Data Portal" funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and the co-convener of the Oxford-Princeton research cluster on "Traditional authority and transnational religious networks in contemporary Shi‘ism.” She is a fellow of the “Women Creating Change” Project on Gender, Religion, and Law in Muslim Societies at Columbia University, New York, and was one of the PIs of the Luce Grant on Religion and International Affairs at Princeton University. Künkler has been a senior research fellow at The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV); the Politics Department at the University of Oxford; the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB); the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta; the Islamic State University (UIN), Alauddin Makassar (Sulawesi), Indonesia; and the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tehran. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion, a Trustee for Princeton University to the American