Sultan Doughan

Dr. Sultan Doughan is 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. Prior to coming to the department of anthropology at Goldsmiths, she was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University (2019-2021) and a visiting assistant professor the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University (2021-2022). Doughan holds a Phd from Anthropology, UC Berkeley (2018) and an MA from FU Berlin (2009), where she graduated from Arabic, Islamic Studies and Political Science. Her writings have been published in Cultural Anthropology Fieldnotes, Transit Journal for the Study of Migration, and The Annual Review of Sociology of Religion, as well as in Errant Journal and Arts of the Working Class.