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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Gökce Yurdakul

  • Berlin Science Week
  • 2024
  • Moderator

Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Director of the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research (BIM). Her areas of interest are gender, immigration, citizenship, belonging and more recently socio-political destabilisation due to climate change. Her research has been funded by national and international grants. She was a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in 2019. She wrote and edited five books as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Yurdakul is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approach to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality scheduled to be published in 2025.