Advisory Board
Associate Professor Andrea F. Bohlman
Department of Music
University of North Carolina, USA
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 Susanne Fengler
Scientific Director
The Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism
Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Professor Tessa Flatten
Professor for Technology Management
Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Professor Fatma Müge Göçek
Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan, USA
Esra Küçük
Berlin, Germany
Professor Nyi Nyi Kyaw
Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Shermin Langhoff
Artistic Director
Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin, Germany
Dr. Tatiana Levina
Visiting researcher at Ruhr University Bochum
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Professor Arien Mack
Alfred J and Monette C Marrow, Professor of Psychology
The New School for Social Research
New York, USA
Associate Professor Mara Matta
Italian Institute of Oriental Studies
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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, Australia
Professor Shalini Randeria
Rector emerita, Central European University Vienna
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Austria
Professor Gisèle Sapiro
Professor of Sociology at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Professor Claudia Tazreiter
Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)
Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)
University of Linköping, Sweden
Associate Professor Maurits van Bever Donker
Centre for Humanities Research, Director
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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, Germany
Professor Naika Foroutan
Director, Head of the Department “Integration Research and Social Policy”
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Professor Katrin Kinzelbach
Institute of Political Science
Faculty of Philosophy
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Professor Claus Leggewie
Inhaber der Ludwig Börne-Professur
Center for Media and Interactivity (Board Member)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Professor Jochen Oltmer
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
Osnabrück University, Germany
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, Germany
PD Dr. Markus Dressler (2021)
Institute for the Study of Religions
Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies
Universität Leipzig, Germany
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, Germany
Expert Panel
Professor Felix Ackermann
Public History
Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany
Dr. Zaal Andronikashvili
Leibniz-Center for Literatur and Cultural Studies (ZfL), Berlin, Germany
Esra Almas
Department of Turkish Literature
Bilkent University, Türkiye
Professor Reinhard Bernbeck
Near Eastern Archaeology
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Adnan Celik
Institute of European Ethnology
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Professor emeritus Michael Daxner
Sociology
University Potsdam, Germany
Dr. Osman Bahadir Dincer
International Centre for Conflict Studies, Bonn, Germany
Dr. Aras Ergünes
Institute for Philosophy
University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Professor Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinéu
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Dr. Anna Förster
Seminar for Literature Studies and Slawistic Literatur Studies
Univerity Erfurt, Germany
Dr. Hafte Gebrihet
Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Susanne Gehrmann
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Dren Gërguri
Department of Journalism
University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Dr. Manhal Hamdo
Human Abilities Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Arshi Javid
Institute for Asian and African Studies
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Professor Yavuz Köse
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Vienna, Austria
Assistant Professor Jennifer Mogannam
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Professor Alessandro Monsutti
Anthropology and Sociology
Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland
Associate Professor Kerem Öktem
International Relations
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Roman Osadchuk
Digital Forensic Research Lab
Atlantic Council
Dr. Alexandr Osipian
Easteurope Institute
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Professor Stefan Peters
Peace Studies
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Professor Shachar Pinsker
Judaic Studies and Middle East Studies
University of Michigan, USA
Professor Anja Pistor-Hatam
Islamic Studies
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Dr. Hannah Pool
Max-Planck- Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
Dr. Raha Sabet Sarvestany
School of History, Culture, and Arts
Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Finland
Assistant Professor Fatemeh Shams
Modern Persian Literature
EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany
Professor Tatiana Shchyttsova
Department of Social Sciences
European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Oleksandr Shtokvych
Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education
Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Nader Talebi
Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM)
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Dr. Jacob Thabit
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Guest Professor Martin Treml
Religion cultural studies
Staatliche Ilia-Universität, Tiflis, Georgia
Dr. Zeynep Türkyilmaz
Department of History
University Potsdam, Germany
PD Dr. Martha Zapata-Galindo
Latin America Institue
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Former Members of the Expert Panel
Associate Professor Andrea F. Bohlman
Department of Music
University of North Carolina, USA
Dr. Tatiana Levina
Visiting researcher at Ruhr University Bochum
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Associate Professor Mara Matta
Italian Institute of Oriental Studies
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Associate Professor Maurits van Bever Donker
Centre for Humanities Research, Director
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
PD Dr. Lutz Rzehak
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
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