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Prof. Dr. Max Kramer

Alumni / Acting Professor for Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa

Contact

LMU München
Institut für Ethnologie
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 München

Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9602

Website: https://maxarnekramer.com/


Max Kramer is currently conducting research on the political ethics and digital activism among Indian Muslims. His main research-area is media practices in India, specifically among religious minorities. In addition to his research, Kramer translates Hindi literature, makes documentary films and explores South Asian literary theory.

Positions

  • Since 2024 Professor for Media Anthropology, LMU Munich (Substitution)
  • 2020 - 2024 Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Volkswagen Freigeistprojekt „The Populism of the Precarious”, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 02/2023 - 04/2023 Academic Visitor at St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
  • 01/2020 - 03/2020 Scholar in Residence, Georgetown University, Qatar
  • 02/2018 - 10/2020 Postdoctoral Researcher at the ERC-Projekt „ONLINERPOL“, Institut für Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
  • 10/2016 - 01/2018 Lecturer for Hindi, Institut für Indologie, Universität Leipzig
  • 10/2012 - 10/2015 Member of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), Freie Universität Berlin

Education

  • 09/2017 PhD at Humboldt Universität Berlin
  • 10/2006 - 07/2011 Magister Artium in New Languages and Literatures of South Asia, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Publications (only monographies)

  • Kramer, Max. (positively reviewed by Routledge, awaiting final approval). Digital Agency: The Political-Ethics of Social Media in an Age of Ethno-Nationalism.
  • Kramer, Max, Salwa Yahya and Britta Ohm, ed. (accepted by Routledge). Muslim Political Agency in India: Imagination, Mobilization and Mediation.
  • Kramer, Max and Jürgen Schaflechner. 2024. Special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology “The Limits of Visibility”. 48 (1). https://link.springer.com/journal/10624/volumes-and-issues/48-1
  • Kramer, Max, Judhajit Sarkar, and Heiko Frese, ed. 2020. Muktibodh und andere moderne Hindi Dichter. Heidelberg: Draupadi. (Muktibodh and Other Modern Hindi Poets)
  • Kramer, Max. 2019. Mobilität und Zeugenschaft: Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmir Konflikt. Bielefeld: Transcript. (Mobility and Testimony: Independent Documentary Film Practices and the Kashmir Conflict)