DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor
Current Courses
- Muslims in Europe Today
- Decolonizing History: European Empires and their Aftermath
Spring 2024 Office Hours
Mondays | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Wednesdays | 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Or by appointment
Contact Information
Armin Langer is a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for European Studies. Prior to joining CES, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Brandeis University's Schusterman Center for Israel Studies in Waltham, MA, a Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy Fellow at the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and worked for the Center for Jewish Ethics at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, PA.
His research interests are migration, identity politics and populism in Europe and the US. He is author of a monograph on
German-Jewish integration, co-edited an anthology on Jewish-Muslim entanglements and published several articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including the German Studies Review (SSCI, AHCI), Studi Irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies (ESCI) and Journal of Jewish Ethics (ESCI). He has received various prizes and grants, such as the Western Jewish Studies Association's Baron Award or the University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Grant.
Armin holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He also studied philosophy and Jewish studies in Budapest, Jerusalem, Potsdam, and Washington, D.C., and graduated with two M.A.'s and two B.A.'s. He was ordained as a rabbi by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and has had teaching and pulpit positions in Jewish communities in the US, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Austria and Hungary.
Recent publications:
2022. "The Protestant Spirit of the Berlin Neutrality Law: An Old-New Kulturkampf against Religious Minorities in the Public Sphere." German Studies Review, 45(2), pp. 283-305.
2022. "Deep State, Child Sacrifices, and the “Plandemic”: The Historical Background of Antisemitic Tropes within the QAnon Movement.” In Antisemitism on Social Media, ed. Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher, pp. 18-34. Routledge.
2022. "Dog-Whistle Politics as a Strategy of American Nationalists and Populists: George Soros, the Rothschilds, and Other Conspiracy Theories." In Nationalism and Populism: Expressions of Fear or Political Strategies?, ed. Carsten Schapkow and Frank Jacob, pp. 157-187. De Gruyter.