Evelyn Reuter

Evelyn Reuter has been head of the FWF research project “Governance Processes of Religious Diversity in Post-Socialist Southeast Europe: The Role of Religious Minorities in Interreligious Dialogues in Albania (RelDiv-A)” at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Graz since 2026. She was previously a research assistant at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich (2024–2025) and received her doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2019. She completed her studies in ethnology, theology and Southeast European studies at the universities of Halle-Wittenberg and Jena (2007–2016). 

Her current research project “RelDiv-A” examines the role of religious minorities in interreligious dialogues in Albania and illuminates the dynamics of religious diversity in post-socialist societies. Field research took her to southeastern Europe, including (North) Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. She worked as a visiting scholar at the Leibniz Institute for European History (2019), at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo (2022–2023) and at the University of Warsaw (2025). 

Evelyn Reuter taught bachelor's and master's students in Southern Slavic studies, religious studies and ethnology at the universities of Jena, Berlin (HU) and Bremen (2019–2022). She was also invited to speak at international summer schools and study days, including in Skopje, Mashhad, Tokyo and Basel. 

In addition to her academic work, she is a member of the management committee of COST Action CRICULT (since 2025) and co-leader of a working group at COST Action COREnet (2024–2025) and is involved in interreligious dialogue. 

Evelyn Reuter has published numerous publications on social, cultural and religious dynamics in Southeastern Europe.