Max Kramer

Prof. Dr. Max Kramer is Visiting Professor of Media Anthropology at LMU Munich, substituting for Prof. Sahana Udupa. His research examines digital activism and political ethics among religious minorities in India, with additional expertise in Hindi literary translation and documentary filmmaking.

Research investigates media practices of Muslim communities in India, analyzing digital activism within contexts of ethno-nationalism. Fieldwork employs ethnographic methods to study online-offline political engagement dynamics.

Publications include monograph manuscripts on digital agency in ethno-nationalist contexts and edited volumes on Muslim political agency in India. Recent special issue for Dialectical Anthropology examines visibility limitations in political discourse.

Academic engagements include visiting positions at University of Oxford and Georgetown University Qatar. Research collaborations include the Volkswagen Freigeist project 'The Populism of the Precarious' at Freie Universität Berlin.