Advisory Board, Expert Panel & Jury

Advisory Board

Dr. Kate Bowan
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Humanities Research Centre
The Australian National University, Australia

Professor Rosinka Chaudhuri
Director and Professor of Cultural Studies
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences
Kolkata, India

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

Professor Nyi Nyi Kyaw
Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia
Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Esra Küçük
Berlin, Germany

Shermin Langhoff
Artistic Director
Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, Germany

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

Professor Jane O. Newman
Department of Comparative Literature
The University of California-Irvine, USA

Professor Paul Pickering
The Australian Studies Institute, Director
The Australian National University

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

Associate Professor Jo Vearey
African Centre for Migration and Society
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Former Members of the Advisory Board

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

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

Humboldt University of Berlin

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

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

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

Maximilian Steinbeis
Chief Editor of Verfassungsblog 

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

Professor B. Venkat Mani
Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Professor Susanne Zepp-Zwirner  
Institute of Romance Studies
Department of Humanities
Universität Duisburg-Essen

Expert Panel

Professor Felix Ackermann
Public History
Fernuniversität in Hagen

Dr. Zaal Andronikashvili
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin

Esra Almas
Department of Turkish Literature
Bilkent University

Professor Reinhard Bernbeck
Near Eastern Archaeology
Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Adnan Celik
Institute of European Ethnology
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor emeritus Michael Daxner
Sociology
Universität Potsdam

Dr. Osman Bahadir Dincer
International Centre for Conflict Studies, Bonn

Dr. Aras Ergünes
Institut für Philosophie
Universität Duisburg-Essen

PD Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dr. Anna Förster
Seminar für Literaturwissenschaft, Slawistische Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Erfurt

Dr. Hafte Gebrihet
Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
University of Cape Town

Professor Susanne Gehrmann
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dren Gërguri
Department of Journalism
University of Prishtina

Dr. Manhal Hamdo
Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Berlin

Dr. Arshi Javid
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professor Yavuz Köse
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Vienna

Tatiana Levina
German Sakharov Society Fellow
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Associate Professor Mara Matta
Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali
SAPIENZA Università di Roma

Assistant Professor Jennifer Mogannam
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz

Professor Alessandro Monsutti
Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute Geneva

Associate Professor Kerem Öktem
International Relations
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Roman Osadchuk
Digital Forensic Research Lab
Atlantic Council

Dr. Alexandr Osipian
Osteuropa-Institut
Freie Universität Berlin

Professor Stefan Peters
Peace Studies
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Professor Shachar Pinsker
Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies
University of Michigan

Professor Anja Pistor-Hatam
Islamwissenschaft
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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

Professor Lutz Rzehak
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Professor Gisèle Sapiro
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

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

Professor Tatiana Shchyttsova
Department of Social Sciences
European Humanities University, Vilnius

Oleksandr Shtokvych
Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education
Central European University, Vienna

Dr. Nader Talebi
Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dr. Jacob Thabit
University of Gothenburg

Guest Professor Martin Treml
Religionskulturwissenschaft
Staatliche Ilia-Universität, Tiflis

Dr. Zeynep Türkyilmaz
Historisches Institut
Universität Potsdam

PD Dr. Martha Zapata-Galindo
Lateinamerika-Institut
Freie Universität Berlin

International Jury

International Jury Artist-in-Residence Program

Prof. Vanessa Agnew 
AiE/ Cultural Studies, Technische Universität Dortmund/
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