Curriculum Vitae

Professional Career

since February 2017
Extraordinary professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/S.

July 2014 to present
Coordinator of the ERC Project REALEURASIA

2013-2014
Winter term Vertretungsprofessur at  Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

2011 - 2012
Vetretungsprofessur at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

October 2010 to present
Dozent at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

2010 Winter term
Vetretungsprofessur at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

May 2009
Habilitation completed at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

2000 – 2009
Senior Research Staff, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle.

2003 – 2008
Associate Professor (W 2) / Head of Research Group “Caucasian Boundaries and Citizenship from Below”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle.

2008, 2004
teaching at the Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg

1999
part-time teaching at the Free University Berlin, Department of Social Anthropology

1997 – 1998
part-time teaching at the University of Bamberg, Department of Turkish Studies

1997 – 1998
Supervisory expertise for a project of the DJI (Deutsche Jugend Institute), report on the migrant associations and their activities involving migrant children

1994 – 1996
Research assistant at the University of Bamberg, Department of Turkish Studies, Volkswagen Stiftung Project on 'Turkish communities in Bamberg and Colmar: a German-French comparison of the social networks of migrants in an intercultural context'

1993
Part-time teaching at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, for the post-graduate program at the Chair for 'Contemporary Near East Studies'

1990 – 1993
Research Assistant at the University of Bamberg, Department of Islamic Studies, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project on 'Religious socialization of Muslim Turkish youth in Germany'

1990-1993
part-time teaching position at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Geography

1987-2000
work as scientific expert for court cases in Denmark and Germany, concerning migrants from Turkey

1988
move to FRG; birth of a son

1986-88
Assistant Lecturer, later Assistant Professor (yardimci doçent) in Social Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

1986
PhD in anthropology, LSE, University of London (thesis title: 'Kinship and tribal organization in the province of Hakkari, southeast Turkey')

1980-82
Fieldwork in Hakkari, southeast Turkey

1980
Begin of the PhD research in anthropology, scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education

Education

1979-1986
Anthropology, London School of Economics, PhD in Anthropology

1978-79
Anthropology, London School of Economics, MPhil Qualifying Exam

1975-78
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, BA in Sociology

1974-75
Wilson College, Women's College for Liberal Arts, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA

1969-74
Robert College (Lycée), Istanbul

Grants, Prizes and Appointments

Member of the Principle Faculty of the Max Planck Research School ANARCHIE’, Halle-Saale

Member of faculty of the Graduate School and research cluster ‚Society and Culture in Motion’ oft he Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg

Member of the Editorial Board of the Series „Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia“

2008 to 2017 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Orientinstitut in Istanbul, Max Weber Foundation

1994-96
Research grant from Volkswagen Foundation

1990-93
Research grant from German Research Association (DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

1980-85
Scholarship from Turkish Ministry of Education

Fieldwork

2016
Turkey (May and August)

2015
Turkey (July-August)

2013
Azerbaijan (July)

2011
Azerbaijan (July)

2008
Azerbaijan (July-August)

2007
Azerbaijan (July-September)

2000-2002
(ten months altogether) Azerbaijan, visit in September 2005

1994 – 1996
Bamberg, Germany and Colmar; France

1990 – 1993
Nürnberg, Germany

1980 – 1982
(eighteen months with intermittent visits thereafter)    Kurdish area in Turkey

Languages

Turkish (native language); English (excellent); German (excellent); Azerbaijani (excellent); French (intermediary); Kurdish (intermediary); Russian (elementary)

Professional Bodies

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde;
Royal Anthropological Institute;
European Association of Social Anthropologists;
CASA (Czech Association for Social Anthropology)

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