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)