Susanne Schröter

After working as Curator at the Women's Museum, Wiesbaden from 1986 to 1990, she became lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz (1991–1996).

In 1994, she obtained her Ph.D. (magna cum laude) in Anthropology at the University of Mainz with a thesis on the construction of "masculinity" and "femininity" in Melanesia (Dissertation title: "Männliche Selbsterhaltungsstrategien angesichts der Vorstellung omnipotenter Weiblichkeit – Materialien zur Konstruktion von 'Männlichkeit' und 'Weiblichkeit' in Melanesien").

Ein Beitrag zur Religion und Sozialstruktur der Ngada in Ostindonesien") and received accreditation as Privatdozentin at Goethe University Frankfurt with a thesis on religion and social structure among the Ngada in East Indonesia.

In 2005, she organized the conference "Islam and Gender in Southeast Asia" at Passau University, Germany.

[1] Schröter is member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Documentation Center for Political Islam.