Dr Carool Kersten
Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam & the Muslim World
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 1795
Email carool.kersten@kcl.ac.uk
Address Room 1G, Chesham Building
King's College London
Strand
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
Areas of interest
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Contemporary Muslim thought
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Intellectual history of the (post)modern Muslim world
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Islam in global and interregional contexts
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History of Islam in Southeast Asia
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Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Islam
Biography
Carool Kersten is Senior Lecturer in the study of Islam and the Muslim World. Before joining King’s College London in 2007, he was a faculty member at the Centre of Graduate and International Studies at Payap University in Chiang Mai (Thailand), where he taught courses on Asian history and religion. Between 2002 and 2005, he also acted as academic director (Thailand) of a US-based non-profit organization facilitating study-abroad programmes in thirteen countries. Prior to that he spent more than ten years working in the Middle East as a human resources manager and translator of Arabic.
He has a PhD in the study of religions from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) from King’s College London, an MA (cum laude) in Arabic Language and Culture from Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), and a Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies from Payap University in Thailand. During a sabbatical year (1995-96), he did graduate work in philosophy at his Alma Mater in The Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as a Member of the Charted Institute of Linguists in the UK..
Dr Kersten also is a Research Associate of the Centre for South East Asian Studies at SOAS and the editor of the book series Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World for Ashgate Publishing. He serves on the international advisory boards of the Journal of Global and International Studies, Sociology of Islam Journal (Brill), and the Journal of Contemporary Islam in Indonesia.
He maintains a blog called Critical Muslims.