Susanne Schröter

Susanne Schröter (born 1957) is a contemporary Social Anthropologist focusing primarily on Islam, Gender and Conflict Studies. Biography Susanne Schröter is head of a research group on "Contemporary discourses on state and society in the Islamic world" and carries out a research project founded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) entitled "Re-negotiating gender in contemporary Indonesia. Empowerment strategies of Muslim and secular women activists".

1990s Schröter studied Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Science and Education at University of Mainz, Germany, she graduated in 1986 (M.A. summa cum laude).

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). She was head of the anthropology library and ethnographic collection at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz from 1993 to 1994. 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"). In September 2025 she announced the imminent end for the "Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam" (FFGI). Her own retirement was coming up and the university had modified the job requirements for her replacement, so an expert in latin american studies without expertise in Islamic studies got chosen. Schröter concluded that the university will close the center after her retirement. She believed the "Center on Global Islam" being in contrast to popular Postcolonialist Theories was the driving force behind this development.

Books The name of Islam (Im Namen des Islam) She has studied and criticized the behavior of the radical Muslim minority in Germany and the purpose of this group and has pointed out that she has written the behaviors and actions of this group in the name of Islam.