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Maren Jordan is an academic coordinator and lecturer at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), focusing on anthropological demography and Middle Eastern studies. She coordinates the CRC 1475 Research Training Group, CERES Early Career Program, and the Graduate School 'Metaphor and Religion'. Her research explores fertility transformations in Oman, kinship systems, and Islamic social dynamics. She holds a PhD in Social & Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hamburg (submitted 2024) and has conducted fieldwork in Oman and India.
Education: MA in Social Anthropology/Islamic Studies (University of Hamburg, 2014), Arabic studies at University of Jordan (2011). Professional roles include lecture positions at RUB and Hamburg University, project collaboration with DFG-funded research, and organizational leadership in conferences like 'Marriage and Modernity in Comparative Perspective' (2018).
Research interests span qualitative/quantitative methods, Gulf Arab societies, and the anthropology of Islam. She has presented widely on topics like medicalization of reproduction in Oman and methodological approaches to fieldwork in the Middle East.
