Nina Käsehage, born in 1978 is an Historian and Religious Scholar. Since 2017, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Department for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (Faculty of Theology) at the University of Rostock. In 2018, she received her Ph.D. for her basic research about the contemporary Salafist and Jihadist milieu in Germany from the Department of Religious Studies (Faculty of Philosophy) at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her main research interests are Islamic Radicalization, New Religious Movements, Qualitative Religious Research, Religious Fundamentalism, Psychology and Sociology of Religion. Current publications are: "Militant Islam vs. Islamic Militancy, Religion, Violence, Category Formation and Applied Research. Contested Fields in the Discourses of Scholarship" (2020, co-author Klaus Hock) and "Salafismus in Deutschland - Entstehung und Transformation einer radikalislamischen Bewegung" (2019).