Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
United Kingdom
fellow
Tobias Müller
2023-2024
2024-2025
2025-2026
2026-2027
Home institution
University of Cambridge
Country of origin (home institution)
United Kingdom
Discipline(s)
Earth, environmental and climate sciences; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Studies; Modern history; Others; Political Sciences; Religious sciences; Social Sciences
Theme(s)
Environment, Sustainability & Biodiversity; Future Studies; Gender, Family & Youth; Other; Post-colonialism; Religion
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Dr Tobias Müller is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at CRASSH, and a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Science at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Cape Town, Hamburg, Leiden, Oxford, UNAM and Yale. He received his PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. As Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), he teaches on undergraduate courses in politics and sociology, and on the MPhil in Politics and International Studies. His research has been funded by the Cambridge Trust, the DAAD, the European Research Council, the German National Scholarship Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, The New Institute Foundation and the Woolf Institute. Tobias has published various op-eds, including in Nature.
Research Project
Democratic Futures: Climate change, coloniality and planetary politics from below
Tobias is Principal Investigator of the project ‘Democratic Futures: Climate change, coloniality and planetary politics from below’. He uses ethnography to understand the socio-political thought and practice of movements, taking marginalised people seriously as theorists of their own practice. His current work investigates the political visions and strategies of the transnational climate movement and how they help us understand the epistemic, democratic, spiritual, intersectional, decolonial and reparationist dimensions of planetary politics. His research interests include political and social theory, the politics of climate change, secularism and Islam in Europe, and decolonial and feminist theory. He has conducted fieldwork and worked with grassroots organisations across Africa (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa), the Americas (Mexico, USA) and Europe (Germany, UK).
Research Interests:
Political theory; social theory; climate change; Secularism; Islam; Decolonial theory; Feminist theory