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 Kwai
Forced Displacement in Southeast Asia
Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Esra Küçük
Managing Director
Allianz Foundation
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

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

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

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/ 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