PhD Supervision
DoktorandInnen-Betreuung
Ongoing Dissertations:
Melih Sengölge (Institute of Social Sciences) Governmentality of the New Green Deal (working title) Supervisory Committee Members: Naika Foroutan, Hursit Günes, Marmara University, Istanbul)
Tebessüm Yilmaz-Wilke (Institute of Social Sciences) Tracing State Violence, Resistance and Memory in Kurdish Cinema. (working title).
Aram Lee (Institute of Social Sciences) The Politics of Bicycle: Gendered Mobility of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany (working title).
Completed Dissertations:
Defense in June 2025:
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: Naika Foroutan, Gülay Caglar, Freie-Universität zu Berlin)
Defense in May 2025:
Khayyam Namazov (Institute of Social Sciences) Pro-Democracy Social Movements in Post-Colonial Azerbaijan (working title, starting year 2018) Supervisor Committee Members: Naika Foroutan, Sofie Bedford from Uppsala University)
Current Status: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities in University of Zurich; Postdoctoral Researcher in UKRI Project, University of Glasgow, UK.
2024
Dr. Tunay Altay (Institute of Social Sciences) Sexualized Bordering and the Queer Strategies of Everyday Life in Turkey and Germany (Starting year 2019, Doctoral Committee: Phillip Ayoub, Naika Foroutan)
Current Employment: Postdoctoral researcher and co-head of research department Gender, Sexuality and Migration at the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM)
2022
Sakar Saber Ibrahim (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: Leverhulme Grantee, University of Warwick, UK
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 am Deutschen Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), Nationale Rassismus un Diskriminierungsmonitor (NaDiRa)
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: CEO & Co-Founder, Transformakers | Strategie- & Politikberatung
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: Assistant Professor at the Corvinus University Budapest (CUB) Department of Sociology (winter semester 2023)
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.