University of Granada
Merve Kayikci is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Granada’s department of Semitic Studies. She is currently part of the European research project “Religious Toleration and Peace” (RETOPEA). She obtained her PhD from the KU Leuven, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology for her ethnography-based research on Belgian Muslim women of Turkish descent and their volunteering practices. Her broader research interests include transnational social movements and their local formations, the spiritual economy, ethical selfhood, ethnicity and migration, gender and subjectivity. She is the co-editor of European Muslims and New Media (2017, Leuven University Press, with L. D’heanens) and has published in the Journal of Contemporary Islam. She has also contributed the chapter Communicating Morality – The Small Politics of Dialogue to the book series Muslims in the UK and Europe (2018, Cambridge University Press)