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