Dr. Mirjam Aeschbach
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Mirjam Aeschbach is a founding member of GeNet-ISMRC.
Mirjam Aeschbach earned a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies and English Literature and Linguistics (2010-2014) and a master’s degree in Religious Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She spent parts of her master’s at the University of Utrecht, Nederland, focusing on the intersection of religion and gender in European public discourses. In addition to her studies, she worked as a research associate at the Chair of Social Psychology and Higher Education Research (ETHZ D-GESS) and as part of a research project at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich. 2019 she spent 6 months as a visiting fellow at the Center for Religion, Media and Culture at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CMRC).
She is currently conducting her PhD within the scope of a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant. Her research focuses on Swiss-lehrstuhGerman media debates on Islam and Muslims in Switzerland and specifically on Muslim women active therein. Looking at mass media as well as social media outputs, she studies how the positionality of Muslim women as well as their active contribution shape narratives of national identity.