Advisory Board, Expert Panel & Jury

Advisory Board

Professor Naika Foroutan
Director, Head of the Department “Integration Research and Social Policy”

Humboldt University of Berlin

Professor Barbara Göbel
Ibero-American Institute, Director
Insitute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Science
Freie Universität Berlin

Professor Fatma Müge Göçek
Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan

Professor Katrin Kinzelbach
Institute of Political Science
Faculty of Philosophy
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Esra Küçük
Managing Director
Allianz Cultural Foundation

Shermin Langhoff
Artistic Director
Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin 

Professor Claus Leggewie
Inhaber der Ludwig Börne-Professur
Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität (Direktoriumsmitglied)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Professor Arien Mack
Alfred J and Monette C Marrow Professor of Psychology
The New School for Social Research

Professor Jochen Oltmer
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
Osnabrück University

Professor Paul Pickering
Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Director
The Australian Studies Institute, Director
The Australian National University

Maximilian Steinbeis
Chief Editor of Verfassungsblog 

Professor Claudia Tazreiter
Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)
Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)
University of Linköping, Sweden

Professor Susanne Zepp-Zwirner  
Institute of Romance Studies
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Freie Universität Berlin

Former Members of the Advisory Board

Professor Friederike Pannewick (2020-2022)
Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies
Department for Arabic Studies
Philipps-Universität Marburg

PD Dr. Markus Dressler (2021)
Institute for the Study of Religions
Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies
Universität Leipzig

Expert Panel

Afghanistan Expert Panel

Professor Reinhard Bernbeck
Near Eastern Archaeology
Freie Universität Berlin

Professor emeritus Michael Daxner
Sociology
Universität Potsdam

Dr. Hannah Pool
Max-Planck- Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

Assistant Professor Fatemeh Shams
Modern Persian Literature
EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

Professor Lutz Rzehak
Central Asian Studies
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Professor Alessandro Monsutti
Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute Geneva

International Jury

International Jury Artist-in-Residence Program

Prof. Vanessa Agnew 
AiE/ English Studies, Universität Duisburg-Essen/
The Australian National University

Khaled Barakeh 
Artist, Berlin

Assoc. Prof. Andrea F. Bohlman 
Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Çağan Duran 
AiE/ Turkish Studies, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Ali Hasan 
Musician, Berlin

Prof. Paweł Leszkowicz 
Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University

Çiğdem Mater 
Filmmaker, Hamburg/Istanbul

Prof. Claudia Tazreiter 
Migration, Ethnicity, and Society, Linköping University