Deniz Yonucu
Deniz Yonucu is a EUME fellow at Forum Transregionale Studien and associated with the Critical Thinking Residency Program at the Freie Universität Berlin. She received PhD in Social Anthropology from Cornell University. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, law and society studies, and urban studies, with a focus on the Middle East. More specifically, her work focuses on human rights, urban violence, crime, counterinsurgency and policing, and sectarianism. Before rejoining EUME, Deniz Yonucu was a DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She held research positions at the EUME, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work appeared in International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, Social & Legal Studies, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, among others. She has also published various op-ed articles related to her area of research in the openDemocracy, Jadaliyya, PoLAR Forum and beyond.