PhD (UC Berkeley)
The Elie Wiesel Center welcomed Sultan Doughan as a post-doctoral fellow in September 2018. She was trained as an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation thesis, Teaching Tolerance: Citizenship, Religious Difference, and Race in Germany, inquires what citizenship can be for religiously differentiated minorities in a secular nation-state, especially after genocide. Her work draws on ethnographic research in the field of civic education in Berlin geared towards immigrant communities, particularly youth, considered to be religiously intolerant.
Dr. Sultan Doughan is now a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Goldsmiths, University of London in the department of Anthropology. She is also the convenor of the MA programme Anthropology & Museum Practice and the interim co-director of the newly founded Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths. Her monograph project Converting Citizens: German Secularism, Holocaust Education and Race is based on her dissertation research in Berlin, Germany and deals with the minority question in Germany after the Holocaust. She is also working on a co-edited volume titled Europe’s Question of Palestine: The Politics of Erasure and Refusal in Germany and Beyond. Her research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Berlin Program for Advanced European and German Studies, the Richard Diebold Fund for Linguistic Anthropology as well as by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Fellowship through the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.