Dr. Steffen Wippel

Professional career:

• 8/2023–4/2024: Publication Manager (maternity replacement) for the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Tunis, at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg │ GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES)
• 3/2022–2/2023: Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group “Resources and Sustainability” at the MECAM, Tunis, at the Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 9/2015–1/2019: Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg
• 8/2014–7/2015: Full Professor in Contemporary Middle East Studies at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark in Odense
• 2011–2016: Researcher affiliated to the Laboratoire ESO-Rennes, Université Rennes 2
• 4/2010–9/2010: Substitute Professor for Arab Studies: Economy and Social Geography of the Middle East at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig
• Since 2010: Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 8/2008–3/2010; 10/2010–12/2013: Senior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin
• 4/2008–3/2010; 10/2010–9/2011: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig
• Since 2008: Editor of the book series “Wirtschaft im Vorderen Orient.” Berlin: Verlag Hans Schiler (–2017: with D. Weiss).
• 4/2006–3/2010: Lecturer at the Department for Contemporary Research on the Middle East, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 10/2005–8/2008: Habilitation candidate at the Faculty for Philosophy and Theology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2005: Work contracts with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin and the Euro-Mediterranean Study Commission (EuroMeSCo), Lisbon
• 4/2000–3/2001: Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Freie Universität Berlin
• 1/1998–6/2003; 7/2003–3/2008: Senior Research Fellow at the ZMO (2000–2003 project group director)
• Since 1997: Editor of the Working Papers series “Volkswirtschaft des Vorderen Orients” (–2017: with D. Weiss); now: “Diskussionspapiere – Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Geographie im Vorderen Orient.” Halle/Saale: MENALIB – The Middle East Virtual Library, Fachinformationsdienst Nahost-, Nordafrika- und Islamstudien
• Autumn term 1996: Lecturer at the University of Applied Science for Public Administration in Brandenburg, Bernau
• 4/1996–10/1997: Lecturer at the University of Potsdam
• 10/1989–9/1994: Research Associate at the Department for Middle Eastern Economics, Freie Universität Berlin

Education:

• 2010: Habilitation (Dr. habil.) and nomination as Lecturer (Privatdozent) in Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Annual habilitation award of the Academic Society Erlangen-Nürnberg); Habilitation thesis „Territorialisation and Regionalisation in North Western Africa – Economic, Political and Spatial Dimensions of Moroccan-Mauritanian Relations” (Territorialisierungen und Regionalisierungen im nordwestlichen Afrika – Wirtschaft, Politik und Raum in den marokkanisch-mauretanischen Beziehungen)
• 1996: Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) at Freie Universität Berlin; PhD thesis “Islamic Economic and Welfare Institutions in Egypt” (in German: Islamische Wirtschafts- und Wohlfahrtseinrichtungen in Ägypten zwischen Markt und Moral)
• 1981–1988: Studies in Economics, Development Economics, and Islamic Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i.Br. and Université Aix-Marseille II (Scholarship from the French Government and the German Academic Exchange Service /DAAD); 1988: Master in Economics (Diplom-Volkswirt)

Current research:

• Neoliberal and postmodern urban development (especially port and secondary cities); branding strategies; regionalisation processes; transregional entanglements; food qualification processes
• Countries and regions: Middle East and North Africa; Maghreb (especially Morocco); Gulf countries (especially Oman)

Memberships:

• Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient für gegenwartsbezogene Forschung und Dokumentation (DAVO)/German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation, member, since 1994 (Head of the DAVO working group “Economy”, since 2007, with C. Steiner and A. Zorob)
• CrossArea e.V. Verband für Transregionale Studien, Vergleichende Area Studies und Global Studies, member, since 2017
• Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies/Nordisk selskap for Midtaustenstudiar, member, since 2010
• Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée (SIHMED), member, since 2003
• Zeitschrift für Mittelmeerstudien, Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien (ZMS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Editorial Advisory Board member, since 2021
• Zentrum für Mittelmeerstudien/Centre for Mediterranean Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, associated member, since 2014
• Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg, associated member, since 2020