Gökçe Yurdakul

Prof. Dr. Gökçe Yurdakul is a Georg Simmel Professor for diversity and social conflict at Humboldt University Berlin and director of the Berlin Institute for Research in Migration and Integration. Her main research areas are gender, immigration and citizenship, especially concerning Muslim women in Western Europe. She has received international and national fellowships, from the Social Science Research Council Canada, the German Centre for Migration Research and the German-Israeli Scientific Research Foundation. In 2019 she was a visiting researcher at Weatherland Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where she was part of the Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion Research Cluster. She is the author and editor of five books, most recently published “The Headscarf Debates: Conflict of National Belonging“ (2014, Stanford University Press, with Anna Korteweg), as well as numerous articles. Yurdakul and Korteweg are currently working on a new book project, that addresses how politics of non-belonging are being (re)produced by European media and in political debates. Yurdakul is co-editor of the leading feminist magazine “Social Politics: International Studies is Gender, State & Society”.