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)