Tunay Altay

Diversity and Social Conflict | Tunay Altay

PhD Candidate and Researcher

Foto: Figure Tunay Altay
Name: Tunay Altay
Email: tunay.altay (at) hu-berlin.de

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of interest

Borders, citizenship, and migration; Sexualities; Gender; Feminist and Queer Theory; Race and ethnicity; Turkey; Germany; Qualitative Methods

Dissertation project

Sexualized Bordering and the Queer Strategies of Everyday Life in Turkey and Germany (Starting year 2019)

Individual projects

The pink line across digital publics: Political homophobia and the queer strategies of everyday-life during COVID-19 in Turkey
Overcoming stigma: Boundary work of privileged mothers with Turkish background in Berlin’s private schools (co-author Prof. Gökçe Yurdakul)
Crossing borders: The intersectional marginalization of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin (co-author Prof. Gökçe Yurdakul and Prof. Anna Korteweg)

Supervisor: Prof. Gökçe Yurdakul

Tunay Altay is a PhD candidate in Humboldt University’s Department of Diversity and Social Conflict. His research and teaching focuses on citizenship, migration and sexuality. As part of his dissertation, Altay is investigating the historical, socio-economic, and institutional factors that affect the lives of marginalized people and how they respond to discrimination, stigmatization in Germany and Turkey. His previous work involved qualitative studies of the experiences of queer people of color and Bulgarian sex workers in Berlin. His research has been supported by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the DeZIM Institute, the DAAD and the Institute for Social Sciences, among others. In addition, Tunay writes cultural commentaries about politics, popular culture, and activism in Germany and Turkey. He is a board member of the European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA).

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
2019-present	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Ph.D. in Sociology Supervisor: Prof. Gökçe Yurdakul
2017-2019	Boğaziçi University	M.A. in Cultural Studies Thesis: Negotiating Alliances: Queer People of Color and the New Wave Turkish LGBTQ Migrants in Berlin
2009-2014	Koç University	B.A. in Law (Major) International Relations (Minor)

SUMMER SCHOOLS

2021

2012

University of Oslo

New School for Social Research

U.C. Berkeley

Summer School in Mixed and Merged Methods
Summer School - Democracy and Diversity Institute
Summer School Certificate, Gender Studies

EMPLOYMENT AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
June 2021 - present September 2020 - May 2021	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Drittmittelfinanzierte Stellen - funded by the DeZIM Institute)	Doctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Doctoral Researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Project titled Getting Respect in Germany: How Immigrants from Turkey Respond to Racism in German Schools
October 2019- May 2020	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Lecturer for the seminer titled "Citizenship, Borders, and Sexuality"
May 2018-October 2019	German American Fulbright Commission, Berlin, Germany	Diversity and Project Assistant for "European Fulbright Diversity Initiative"
April 2017- April 2018	Boğaziçi University	Research Assistant Teaching Assistant

TEACHING
2019-2020	Humboldt University of Berlin	Seminar titled: "Citizenship, Borders, and Sexuality" - Humboldt University of Berlin
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (selected)
September 2020 – January 2021	Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung	Research funding for “Getting Respect in Germany: How Turkish People in Berlin Respond to Racism and Discrimination”
October 2020	Humboldt-Universität-Gesellschaft	Academic event funding
March 2020 – January 2021	DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)	Scholarship for Particularly Engaged Doctoral Students with an Outstanding Commitment within the International Context
2019	European Commission & Boğaziçi University	Erasmus+ Grant
2020	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Conference & Travel Grant
2009-2015	Koç University	Vehbi Koç Scholar

AWARDS AND PRIZES
2021	Council for European Studies, Colombia University	Gender and Sexuality Research Network Best Article Prize

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

(2021) (under-review) "The pink line across digital publics: Political homophobia and the queer strategies of everyday-life during COVID-19 in Turkey" European Journal of Women’s Studies
(2020) "Crossing borders: The intersectional marginalization of Bulgarian Muslim trans*immigrant sex workers in Berlin," co-author with Prof. Yurdakul, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1862646

Other Academic Publications

(2021) ““Who is afraid of the rainbow?” The Politics of LGBTQ Symbols in Turkey” Engenderings Blog, London School of Economics
(2020) "What COVID-19 Reveals about Borders and Citizenship: Europe’s Migrants on Their Way Back Home," Witnessing Corona Series, Medizinethnologie Blog, Arbeitsgruppe Medical Anthropology in der DGSKA e.V

Op-eds and Interviews

(2020) "Anti-Blackness in Turkish Popular Culture: Revisiting Arab Mammies, Yam-Yams, and Sexualized Black Bodies," Bianet Turkey, Independent Communication Network
(2020) "Türkiye Popüler Kültüründe Siyah Karşıtı Irkçılık: Arap Bacılar, Yamyamlar ve Cinselleştirilmiş Siyah Bedenler," Bia Magazine, Independent Communication Network
(2020) "Digital Clubbing: Turkish Queers Claim the Internet during COVID-19," MyKali Magazine, Vol:70
(2019) “Szene Machen: Queer Men* of Color Berlin,” Siegessäule Magazine, Dezember 2019

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY, DEPARTMENT AND CAMPUS
Studierendenvortragsreihe Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Gender Studies Department		Organizer (2019-2021)
Queer Men* of Color Group, GLADT e.V.		Organizer (2019-2020)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA)	Board Member (2020-2022)
European Association of Social Anthropologists	Member (2019-present)
Council for European Studies Gender and Sexuality Race and Racism in Europe	Member (2020-present)
Gesellschaft für Prostitutions- und Sexarbeitsforschung	Member (2020-present)

CONFERENCES (selected)

Panel Presentations

(2020) 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellshaft für Soziologie “COVID-19 and the Politics of Cure: Border Closures from the Perspective of Queer Noncitizen and Bi-national Couples in Berlin,” Berlin, Germany.
(2020) Online Conference of Council for European Studies - Gender and Sexuality Research Network, "Strolling at the Crossroads of Sex, Gender, and Immigration: A Study of Trans* Immigrants Occupied with Street Sex Work in Berlin," University of Exeter, UK.
(2020) Social Movements & Mobilization in Times of Global Pandemic, "Borders from Below: A Study of Trans* Immigrants Occupied with Street Sex Work in Berlin," Copenhagen Centre for Political Mobilization and Social Movement Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
(2019) European Network for Queer Anthropologist Conference, "From Turkey to Berlin: Rethinking Queer Ethnography and Writing Against, Within, and Without,” European University Viadrina, Germany.
(2019) Academics on the Move, "Exploring the Classroom as a Site of Collected Remembrance," Humboldt University & Touro College Berlin, Germany.
(2017) Social Sciences Congress, "Politics of Masculinity in Canada’s Underground Cinema," Ryerson University, Canada.

Workshop Presentations

(2019) Ph.D. Colloquium: A Masterclass with Prof. Martin F. Manalansan IV, “Negotiating Community Engagements and Alliances: Queer People of Color and Turkish Migrants in Berlin,” Humboldt University, Germany.
(2019) Sabancı University Publication Workshop: Turkey’s Queer Times: Three Decades of LGBTQ+ Struggle in a Muslim Society, “Negotiating Community Engagements and Alliances: Queer People of Color and Turkish Migrants in Berlin,” Sabancı University, Turkey.

Organization

(2020) SVR Breaks the Internet: Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
(2019) 65th Fulbright Berlin Seminar, European Fulbright Diversity Initiative and German American Fulbright Commission, Germany.
(2019) 2nd European Diversity Roundtable Workshop,” European Fulbright Diversity Initiative and Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commissions, Bulgaria.

Public Talks

(2020) “Unmasking Inequalities: Minority and Marginalized Community Responses to COVID-19” Fulbright Association
(2020) "Queer Openings," Inaugural Workshop of the DGSKA Working Group Gender and Sexualities Queer Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.^{^[1]}
(2019) "Gender, Cognition and Queer Theory Panel,” Istanbul University, Turkey.

Moderation

(2020) Moderator, "State, Politics, and Gender," SVR Breaks the Internet: Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality, Germany.
(2019) Discussant, “Aesthetics of Trauma & Violence," Sabancı University, Freie Universität Berlin & University of Ulster, Germany.

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Tunay Altay

Curriculum Vitae

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