Rabbi Armin Langer

​Armin Langer is currently a DAAD visiting assistant professor at the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida. Prior to joining UF, he held visiting fellowships at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and at the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia. His research interests are migration, identity politics and populism in Europe and the United States. He is the author of a monograph on German-Jewish integration, co-edited an anthology on Jewish-Muslim entanglements and has written numerous articles for academic and non-academic publications. Armin, who earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Humboldt University of Berlin, has pursued studies in philosophy and Jewish studies in Budapest, Jerusalem, Potsdam and Washington, D.C. He received ordination as a rabbi from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and has taught and led services in Jewish communities in the United States, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Austria and Hungary.