About the CST

Elisabeth Becker-Topkara

Elisabeth Becker-Topkara is a Freigeist Fellow at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology, Heidelberg University. She is author of Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe (University of Chicago Press 2021), and has published extensively on religion, race and ethnicity in, for example, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Cultural Sociology and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, specifically focusing on Jewish and Muslim experiences in the context of Europe. As a public scholar, she also runs Inscribing Plurality (supported by the Landecker Foundation) and writes for mainstream publications such as the Washington Post, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Tablet Magazine. She is co-editor of Patterns of Prejudice.