Max-Weber-Kolleg (Steinplatz 2) / room 408 (3. OG)
on appointment
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
University of Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Martin Fuchs studied Anthropology, Sociology und Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the Universities Marburg, Heidelberg and Frankfurt/Main, and received his PhD in 1985 from the University Frankfurt/Main. This was followed by teaching appointments at the Universities of Zürich, Heidelberg and the Free University in Berlin. At the Free University he also did his Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) in 1997. In the following years Martin Fuchs held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Paderborn; Heidelberg (South Asia Institute); Free University Berlin; Central European University, Budapest; and the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (New Zealand). Martin Fuchs was Founding Director of the New Zealand South Asia Centre (2008-2009). Since 2009 Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship of Indian Religious History at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt. Martin Fuchs was one of the initiators of the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS-MP) in New Delhi, whose base consists of a network of six Indian and German research institutes and universities. He represents the University of Erfurt in the consortium and periodically acts as the German Co-Director of ICAS-MP.
In der Lehre bietet Martin Fuchs Veranstaltungen zur Religionsgeschichte Indiens, zur Theorie und Methode der Ethnographie und zur Religionssoziologie an.
The research interests of Martin Fuchs lie in Cultural and Social Theory; the Anthropology, Sociology and Religious Studies of South Asia; social and religious movements; Dalits; Urban Anthropology and Human Rights issues.
Kooperationsprojekt: "Die lokale Politisierung globaler Normen"
"ICAS-MP Metamorphoses of the Political"(darin MWK-Teilprojekt: "Normative Conflicts and Transformation")
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive"
University of Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt