Robin Kurilla is a communication scholar whose research is situated at the intersection of theoretical foundations and qualitative empirical studies. He has conducted extensive theoretical, historiographic, and cross-cultural research on emotions in conflicts in the German Ruhr Area, the Basque Country, and Bali. His doctoral dissertation (predicate: summa cum laude) was awarded a certificate of excellence by the University Duisburg-Essen and published in two volumes by Springer VS. The outcome of his habilitation, his latest book delivers a theoretical treatise on the fabrication of group identities, in the context of which the groundwork for rethinking the domain of group communication and for a paradigmatic revolution of social theory has been laid out. Becoming increasingly concerned with the division of societies, his latest articles focus on the societal corruption of understanding and barriers of communication, particularly in relation to the realm of politics. He has recently designed a research program to help comprehend emotions, collective identities, and popular culture as media for coordinating social protests in traditional and emerging public spaces.
