Anne K. Schlüter

Anne K. Schlüter is a researcher and PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Münster, Germany. Her doctoral project investigates the practice of credibility assessment in asylum claims based on religious conversion, drawing on ethnographic and qualitative methods. It contributes to ongoing debates on refugee status determination processes, law and religion, and the extra-legal factors that shape judicial decision-making. Her broader research interests include social differentiation theory and the sociology of law, religion, and knowledge. Prior to her stay in Oxford, Anne K. Schlüter was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Münster, where she also completed her Master’s degree. She currently serves on the editorial board of the blog of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies and is actively involved in several academic networks and working groups on social theory, qualitative research, forced migration studies, and religious pluralism.