Curriculum Vitae

Education

2016
Humboldt-University Berlin, Law Faculty
Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.); Dissertation: »Law and Racism – A Race Analysis of Human Rights«
Supervisors: Susanne Baer/Christoph Möllers

2009
Columbia University, Law School                                                                    
Visiting Research Program
Supervisor: Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

2004-2005
Humboldt-University Berlin, Law Faculty
Magister Legum (LL.M.)
Thesis: »The Headscarf as a Legal Construction«
Supervisor: Susanne Baer

2002-2004
Humboldt-University Berlin, Law Faculty,
Turkish Law

2002-2003
Humboldt-University Berlin, Law Faculty
Erasmus year (academic exchange)

1997-2003
Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, Law Faculty                           
»Licenciat en Droit« (Master in Laws)

Professional and Teaching Activities

2016-2017
Humboldt University Berlin
Lecturer, AG Staatsorganisationsrecht (Constitutional Law)

2016
Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus und Rassismus Berlin
Consultant (Referent)

2015-2017
DePaul University (Chicago, USA) – Summer School                                 
Adjunct Faculty, Courses: “Intersectionality and Human Rights” and “History, Memory, Law”

2014
Humboldt-University Berlin (Gender Studies)
Course: Critical Race Theory Europe – Challenges and Potentials

2013-2014
Humboldt-University Berlin (Gender Studies
Course: Can Intersectionality Travel?

2011-2013
Open Society Justice Initiative
Legal Consultant

2010-2011
»Network against the Discrimination of Muslims«
Seminar facilitator
Anti-Discrimination Trainings

2008-2010
»Islam in the West«-project, Jocelyne Cesari      
Researcher in the Berlin Team
Researching the religious and ethnic self-identification processes, the discrimination experiences, and the local political engagement of German Muslims after 9/11

Fellowships

2012
African American Policy Forum                                                                                      
Fellowship for Summer School: Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
Negril, Jamaica

2009
Columbia Law School, New York, Visiting Research Fellow                                      

2008-2012
Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation, Doctoral Fellowship

2005
Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation, LL.M.-Fellowship

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

April 2018
International Conference on Kurdish Societies and Politics
Yale University, USA
Paper: »Diasporic Responses of Yezidis to Re-Traumatization«

April 2018
Transatlantic Perspectives on Racial Equality
Cincinnati University, USA
Paper: »Race, Law, and German Exceptionalism«

October 2017
Junges Forum – Rasse und Recht: französische und deutsche Querschnittsperspektiven
Humboldt-University Berlin & Centre Marc Bloch Berlin
Concluding Remarks: »Framing Race and Law in Europe«

June 2016
ICON Annual Conference
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Paper: »The Holocaust as a Legal Argument«

December 2015
W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Paper: »Comparing US-American and German Post-Racialisms«

July 2015
British Academy, Conference: The Race Relations Act @ 50, London
Paper: Equality politics under German Exceptionalism

June 2012
Critical Race Theory Europe Symposium
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Organizer and Paper: »Critical Race Theory Beyond German Exceptionalism«

October 2011
Symposium on Histories of Migration: Germany and USA
Georgetown University, Washington, USA
Paper: »Eternal Migrant Seeking for Justice«

16-18 June 2011
International Graduate Conference: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Paper: »A Post-Colonial Deconstruction of German Exceptionalism«

March 2010
4th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium – Intersectionality
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Paper: »Intersectionality as a Fetish«

October 2009
Speakers Series at Seattle Law School
Seattle University, USA
Paper: »Racism and Equality Law – Toward a German Critical Race Theory«

July 2007
Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures                     
Law and Society Annual Meeting – Berlin 2007, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Papers: 1. »Rasse or Race in the German Law – A Manifesto for a German Critical Race Theory«, 2. »The Headscarf in the Postcolonial Legal Condition«

Languages

Dutch, Kurdish, Turkish (native speaker)
English, French, German (highly fluent)

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