Jeff Jurgens is Continuing Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College and Faculty Chair of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in the Bard Prison Initiative. He specializes in topics related to migration, citizenship, public memory, urban space, and secularism among people of Turkish backgrounds in Berlin. More recently, he has examined the cultural and affective politics of “refugee crisis” in Germany and Europe since 2015. His publications have appeared in journals like American Ethnologist, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Policy and Society, Transit, and Turkish-German Studies Yearbook. He has also contributed to the edited volumes Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees in Times of Crises (2021), After the Imperialist Imagination (2020), Different Germans, Many Germanies (2017) and Walls, Borders, Boundaries (2012). Prior to his arrival at Bard, Jeff received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and taught at Pitzer College. He has participated in the Lexicon network collaborative course since the spring of 2019.

jurgens@bard.edu

Zeynep Kivilcim is an associate professor of public international law. She received her MA and PhD degrees from Université Paris II. Her work and research deal with human rights law, migration, and politics of legality with a critical gender perspective. She has taught at Istanbul University, Göttingen University, Osnabrück University, and Humboldt University. Her recent publications include Recent Publications: “Feminism and Displacement”, in: The Routledge Global History of Feminism, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson, Routledge, 2022.The Politics of Legality of the Authoritarian Liberal Regime in Turkey”, in: Regime Change in Turkey. Neoliberal Authoritarianism, Islamism, and Populism, edited by Ezgi Pınar, Errol Babacan, Melehat Kutun, Zafer Yılmaz, Routledge, 2021, p.196-212. Migration Crises in Turkey”, in: Oxford Handbook of Migration Crisis, Cecilia, edited by Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Immanuel Ness, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, 2019, p.427-444.

z.kivilcim@berlin.bard.edu