Armando Salvatore (Italy/Germany) Armando Salvatore earned his ...

Armando Salvatore (Italy/Germany)
Armando Salvatore earned his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European
University Institute, Florence (1994) and received his Habilitation in Sociology from the
Humboldt University in Berlin (2005). He is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, and Reader at the Institute of Social Science,
Humboldt University, Berlin. He is also, on a part-time basis, Senior Research Fellow at
The Mediterranean, Europe, and Islam: Actors in Dialogue in Naples.
Dr. Salvatore has held teaching and research positions and has been awarded research
fellowships in the USA (Indiana University, Bloomington), Italy (European University
Institute, Florence), Egypt (Centre d Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques
et Sociales, Cairo), Ireland (University of Cork), the Netherlands (Institute for the Study of
Islam in the Modern World, Leiden), and the UK (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies). He
founded and directs, since 2000, the Forum of Social Research and is editor of the
Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam.
His research focuses on the political significance of modern concepts of religion and
secularity as developed within the Euro-Mediterranean civilizational area. Among his most
recent publications are The Public Sphere: Between Tradition and Modernity (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006); Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies (ed., with Mark
LeVine, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good, (ed., with
Dale F. Eickelman, Brill, 2004).

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