Curriculum Vitae
Education
since 2014
PhD Candidate, Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
2012
Magister Artium (MA) in Social Anthropology, Religious Studies, Journalism, University of Leipzig, Germany
2008–2009
MA programme in Social Anthropology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Professional Activities/Teaching
2026
Guest lecture “Geschichte und Rechtsprechung zu Sinti und Roma in der BRD – Eine Rewriting Judgements Übung”, Humboldt University, Faculty of Law, Berlin/Germany, 11 June.
2023
Guest lecture, jointly with Gjulner Sejdi, “Racist Continuities Regarding the Persecution of Sinti and Roma in Saxony”, Institute for Cultural Studies, Leipzig University, 26 May.
2019
Seminar Lecturing, “Feminist Anthropology” Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Leipzig University, 1 March–15 July.
Participation in Conferences and Workshops
2025
Workshop jointly with Friederike Gehrke, “Working Group on Civil Law”, at European Judicial Training “Cultural Diversity in the Courtroom – Judges in Europe facing New Challenges”, Forum Bonn, Bonn/Germany, 18–19 September.
2024
Workshop jointly with Larissa Vetters, “Geschichte und Rechtsprechung zu Sinti und Roma in der BRD. Eine Rethinking Judgments Übung”, Training Module for “Richterakademie, Interkulturelle Kompetenz Training”, Justizakademie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Wustrau, Germany, 16 October.
2024
Workshop “The Role of Social Anthropology and Law in the History of Roma Persecution”, Training Module for the European Judicial Training Study Visit, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany, 17 May.
2023
Workshop jointly with Larissa Vetters, “Culture as Context” Training Module for the European Judicial Training Network, Sub-Working Group Human and Fundamental Rights, Ministry of Justice, Vienna/Austria, 16–17 October.
2021
Workshop jointly with Ilenia Ruggiu “Working Group on Criminal Law”, Training Module for the European Judicial Training Network, Spanish Judicial School, Barcelona/Spain, 18–19 November.
2019
Paper “Differential inclusion in Europe's new migration regime“, presented at the conference “Migration Dynamics And New Trends In European (In)Security“, Sixth Edition, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca/Romania, 16–18 May.
2019
Paper “Roma and the Race-Neoliberalism Nexus: disclosing processes of dispossession and exploitation”, presented at the conference “Racial Orders, Racist Borders” at Amsterdam University, Amsterdam/Netherlands, 17–18 October.
2013
Paper “Contested Research or the Burdens of the Past” presented at the conference “The Roma in Europe: From the Holocaust to the Decade of Roma Inclusion”, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 8 March.
2009
Discussant of Adrian Marsh’s “Roma in Turkey” at The many faces of Romani Pentecoastalism, Södertörn University, Stockholm, November.
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
2009
“Germany and Turkey in Interaction: Historical and Crosscultural Perspectives on Religious Identities and Institutions”. Conference at Yildiz Technical University Istanbul, Center for Global Studies, 10–12 September 2009.
Fieldwork
2014–2015
North Macedonia; Bulgaria; Kosovo; Hungary; Germany.
2010–2011
Turkey, Istanbul for MA thesis
Membership in Professional Associations
Romani Studies Network
Languages
German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)