Dr. Latife Akyüz

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• International Borders
• Ethnicity and Gender on Borderlands
• Border Economy
• Turkey-Georgia Borderland
• Gender and Migration, Transnational Migration
• Intersectionality
• Exile Studies

Dr. Latife Akyüz received her doctorate in 2013 from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, with the dissertation "Ethnicity and Gender Dynamics of Living in Borderlands: The Case of Hopa-Turkey". She was a visiting scholar at Indiana University (2010), Binghamton University (2011-2012) and the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies, Liège University (2014). From March 2014 to 2016, she worked as an assistant professor at the University of Duzce when, like many other academics for peace, she was dismissed from her position. As a result, Dr. Akyüz was forced to flee Turkey and began working as a Philipp Schwartz Fellow at Goethe University (2016-2019). After working as an Einstein Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (BIM), she came to the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) in 2022.