Professor Thijl Sunier

Thijl Sunier (1954), anthropologist, holds the chair of ‘Islam in European Societies’ at the VU University Amsterdam. He conducted research on inter-ethnic relations, Turkish youth and Turkish Islamic organisations in the Netherlands, comparative research among Turkish youth in France, Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands, and international comparative research on nation building and multiculturalism in France and The Netherlands. He also conducts research in the field of transnational Islamic movements, religious leadership, and nation-building and Islam in Europe.