Verena Hanna Meyer
Visiting Research Scholar
Verena Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Islam in South and Southeast Asia at Leiden University. Previously, she received her PhD at Columbia University’s Department of Religion and held a postdoctoral fellowship in Norway. Trained in Islamic Studies and specialized in Islam in the Malay-Indonesian world, she draws on ethnographic field research, training in contemporary critical theory, and literary studies in Javanese, Malay, and Arabic to investigate questions of Islamic identity, the role of memory and the formation of heritage, and the transmission of knowledge across time and space.