Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Diversity and Social Conflict

Department of Diversity and Social Conflict offers seminars and thesis supervision on immigration, citizenship, anti-racism, religion, sexuality and gender-related topics. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work everyday and institutional racism, social and political participation of immigrants and minorities in Europe, intersections of gender, "race" and class. In these themes, we aim to bring historical depth, contextual comparisons and methodological (particularly qualitative or mixed methods) analysis of current controversies in the European context. We are affiliated as researchers with Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration Research (BIM) at our university. 

Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul, PhD

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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter (Research Associates):  

Dr. Özgür Özvatan (BIM), 

Tunay Altay

Dr. Inga Kravchik

Studentische Hilfskräfte (Student Assistants): 

Anna Weissenborn, weissena@hu-berlin.de (until September 1, 2022)

Katarina Kukla kuklakat@hu-berlin.de

Laura Antje Hoffmann laura.antje.hoffmann@hu-berlin.de (until February 28, 2023)

Aissata Drieling drielina@hu-berlin.de

Office Hours:

Please send an email to Frau Heimann to schedule a timeslot in the office hours. 

Office Administration/Sekretariat

Maraike Heimann

Diversity and Social Conflict

Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Universitätsstraße 3b

Raum 331

Tel.: 030-2093-66610

Fax: 030-2093-66611

e-mail: sekdivsc@hu-berlin.de

Mail Address:

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institute of Social Sciences, Diversity and Social Conflict (Prof. Dr. Yurdakul)

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin

Due to the current situation, the regular post service of the HU cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, all students are asked to send final papers to their supervisors digitally. Bachelor- and Master-theses need to be sent to the examination office by e-mail. Please make sure to name both supervisors in this mail.  

Department of Diversity and Social Conflict offers seminars and thesis supervision on citizenship, immigration, anti-racism, religion, ethnicity and gender-related topics. We are particularly interested in theoretical and empirical work everyday and institutional racism, political participation of immigrants and minorities in Europe, intersections of gender, "race" and class and refugee movements. In these themes, we aim to bring historical depth, contextual comparisons and methodological (particularly qualitative or mixed methods) analysis of current controversies in the European context. We are affiliated as researchers with Berlin Institute for Migration and Integration Research at our university. We are officially collaborating with University of Melbourne, Australia and University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Professorship: Prof. Dr. Gökce Yurdakul, PhD

• Research Assistants: Nihad El-Kayed,  Özgür Özvatan, Dr. Ulrike Hamann, Seyran Bostancı, Dr. Holger Wilcke
• Einstein Foundation Senior Scholar: Dr. Nil Mutluer 
• Student Assistants: Laura Schlagheck 
  • Migration, Media and Politics Research Project: Bastian Neuhauser, Özgür Özvatan (funded by the Berlin University Alliance Project with University of Melbourne)
• Body Politics, Research Project Coordinator: Gala Rexer (funded by the German-Israeli Foundation)
• Teaching Staff in SoSe 2020: Tunay Altay (Gender, sexuality and borders)

Office Administration/Sekretariat

Maraike Heimann

Diversity and Social Conflict

Institut für Sozialwissenschaften,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Universitätsstraße 3b

Raum 331

Tel.: 030-2093-66610

Fax: 030-2093-66611

e-mail: sekdivsc@sowi.hu-berlin.de

Office hours: Please note that the office hours are suspended until further notice

Tuesdays: 10 to 12 am

Thursdays: 14 to 16 pm

Mail Address:

Humboldt University Berlin

Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institute of Social Sciences, Diversity and Social Conflict (Prof. Dr. Yurdakul)

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin

2021-2022

Paige Newhouse, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan, Fulbright Fellow

2016-21

Dr. Nil Mutluer, Einstein Senior Scholar 

Philip-Schwartz Fellow for Scholars at Risk, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 

2017

Assoc. Prof. Antje Schuhmann, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Kosmos Fellow 

2016

Assoc. Prof. Hakan Sicakkan, University of Bergen, Norwegen 

2015-16

Anlam Filiz, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA, DAAD Fellow 

Assoc. Prof. Besime Sen, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Architecture Faculty, Department of City and Regional Planning, TÜBITAK Guest Researcher 

Dr. Baris Cakmur, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Türkei, TÜBITAK Guest Researcher

Assoc. Prof. Nadya Nedelsky, Macalester College, MN, USA, Fulbright Fellow

2014

Soline Laplanche-Servigne, PhD Candidate, Sciences Po, Paris, DAAD Fellow

Emmanuelle Buchard,  Institut des Sciences Sociales des Religions Contemporaines (ISSRC), Observatoire des Religions en Suisse (ORS) Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation, DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow

2013-2014

Assoc. Prof. Esra Özyürek, London School of Economics, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Visiting Faculty Member

Assist. Prof. Aviad Rubin, University of Haifa, German-Israeli Fellowship (GIF) for Young Scientists

2012-2013

Dr. Amir Husak, New York University, Fulbright Scholar

2011-12

Prof. Peter O'Brien, Trinity University, USA, DAAD Fellow

I am not accepting doctoral students for supervision at the moment. I wish you all the best in your academic endeavors. (as of January 2023)

Ongoing PhD Supervisions:

Fatima El-Sayed (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences) Muslim Women’s Community Defense against Islamism and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany (working title, starting year 2021, Supervisory Committee Members: Anna Korteweg, Naika Foroutan)

Tunay Altay (Institute of Social Sciences) Sexualized Bordering and the Queer Strategies of Everyday Life in Turkey and Germany (Starting year 2019)

Tebessüm Yilmaz (ISW / Fellow of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Representations of Social Trauma and State Violence against Kurds in the Alternative Cinema of Turkey Through Collective Memory (starting year 2017)

Khayyam Namazov (ISW, DAAD Doctoral Fellowship) Changing Social Movements in Azerbaijan: The Public Sphere and Social Conflict (starting year 2018)

Melih Sengölge (ISW) The Birth of a Radical Social Democracy at the edge of Green Transition: The Green New Deal (starting year 2017, Supervisory committee members:  Naika Foroutan, Hursit Günes)

Completed Dissertations: 

2022

Sakar Saber (ISW) Gendered Suicide: Power, Patriarchy, and Women’s Body in Iraqi Kurdistan 

2021

Dr. Gala Rexer (ISW / Fellow of Heinrich-Böll Foundation) Bodies and Borders: The Politics of Reproductive Technologies in Israel/Palestine 

Current employment: Post-Doc, Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London

Dr. Seyran Bostanci (ISW) Inklusion in Theorie und Praxis – Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der Umsetzung des Praxiskonzeptes `Vorurteilsbewusste Bildung und Erziehung´ in Kindertageseinrichtungen 

Current employment: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für die Begleitung der Modellprojekte der Säule „Vielfalt gestalten“ des Bundesprogramms „Demokratie Leben!“ am Deutschen Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM). 

Dr. Öndercan Muti (ISW / Fellow of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Memory in Motion: A Comparative Study on the Postmemories of 4th Generation after the Armenian Genocide 

Current employment: Project Coordinator, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Population Europe

2020

Dr. Özgür Özvatan (BGSS, International Doctoral Program) Transnational Blame Games: The Populist Challenge to Geman-Turkish Politics 

Current employment: stellvertretender Abteilungsleiter der Abteilung Integrationsforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik und der Abteilung Grundfragen von Integration und Migration am Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung

Dr. Noemi Katona (ISW, fellow of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Pimps, boyfriends and transnational families:  The negotiation of money and emotions by Hungarian sex workers in the Kurfürstenstraße 

Current employment: Junior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, Institute of Sociology

2018

Dr. Inken Bartels (BGSS,  European Doctoral Program) The (re)construction of the 'European border regime': An ethnographic approach to the practices of the International Organization of Migration's 'management of  migration' in the Euro-Mediterranean region 

Book based on dissertation: Bartels, Inken (2022): The International Organization for Migration in North Africa. Making International Migration Management. Interventions Series, Routledge.

Current employment: wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*in, Universität Osnabrück

2017

Dr. Inna Michaeli (ISW, fellow of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) Self-Enterprising Citizens: Comparing Strategies of Economic Empowerment for Women in Germany and Israel

Book based on dissertation: (2021) Women's Economic Empowerment. Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State, Palgrave Macmilan (Springer)

Current employment: Building Feminist Economies Manager at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

2015

Dr. Anna Schlumbohm (BGSS) Immigration, Exclusion, and Institutional Constraints: Evaluating Political Participation and Involvement of Long-Term Immigrants in Germany 

Current employment:  Researcher at the Institut für Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswissenschaft, Charite.