Jan Düsterhöft

Jan Düsterhöft

GLOTREC Knowledge in Transition Staff
MRG C2.21
+49 531 59099-245
jan.duesterhoeft(at)gei.de

Jan Düsterhöft has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute since 2021 and works on various projects in the departments Knowledge in Transition, GLOTREC and Human-Centred Technologies for Educational Media.

He studied Islamic, Iranian and Persian studies and Indology in Marburg, Göttingen and Jerusalem. His research focusses on the production/transfer of knowledge on Islam and Muslims, anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia, and Salafism in Germany.

Düsterhöft is currently working for the project Queer Life. Queer Diversity and Heteronormativity in Textbooks, undertaking a systematic cross-sectional analysis of the extent to which queer diversity is included in textbooks, supplementary teaching materials and curricula.

He was researching the depiction and contextualisation of Muslims and Islamophobia in curricula and textbooks for teaching history, politics/social studies and geography in German secondary schools for the BMI-funded project ‘Islamophobia in Textbooks’ (Muslimfeindlichkeit in Schulbüchern).

Jan Düsterhoft worked with Riem Spielhaus to produce reports on anti-Muslim racism for the German Youth Institute (DJI), the Senatsverwaltung für Justiz, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung in Berlin and the national discrimination and racism monitor (Nationalen Diskriminierungs- und Rassismusmonitor) at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM).

He researched Salafistic activities and knowledge transfer in Germany and produced reports on the subject for the project ‘Choosing Islamic Conservatism’ at Oxford University.

In 2022 Jan Düsterhöft lectured at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Göttingen where he taught a course on ethnological Muslim societies.

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