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Fatih Abay

Fatih Abay

Freie Universität Berlin

International Summer and Winter University

(FUBiS)

Email
f.abay[at]fu-berlin.de

Fatih Abay holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Central European University Budapest and is currently preparing his doctoral dissertation at the Europa-Universität-Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder and at the EHESS in Paris in the discipline of Cultural Anthropology and Political Sociology. His research interests are Islam and Muslims in Europe, the politics of migration in Germany, secularism, gender, theories on public sphere, and social and political theory. He has taught various courses on these topics at Europa-Universität-Viadrina, such as „Muslims within the Public Sphere and Secularism“, „Gender and Islam“, and „Anthropology of Islam“. From 2021 till 2022 Fatih Abay has been a researcher for the NGO „CLAIM- Alliance against Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hatred“. Since June 2022 he has been working as Diversity & Inclusion Officer for the European Film Academy. Next to FUBiS he is teaching at its sister program FU-BEST and other universities on the topics of migration, racism and diversity.

Current FUBiS courses:

  • Since 2017 Adjunct Instructor. Evangelische Hochschule Berlin. 
  • Since 2016 Adjunct Instructor. Freie Universität Berlin. FU-BEST program.
  • 2016-2017 Adjunct Instructor. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie.
  • 2015-2017 Adjunct Instructor. Europa-Universität Viadrina. Professur für Vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie. 
  • 2013-2016 Northeastern University Boston. Co-Ordinator Berlin Program of “Dialogue of Civilizations”.
  • 2013-2014 Research Assistant Europa-Universität Viadrina. Professur für Vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie.
  • 2011-2013 Adjunct Instructor. Europa-Universität Viadrina. Professur für Vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie. 
  • Since 2011 Doctoral Candidate at Europa-Universität Viadrina & EHESS Paris. PhD (Co-Tutelle). Comparative Anthropology and Political Sociology.

    Dissertation Title:     Striving for Individualism within Islam. Secular-Liberal Muslims within the German Public Sphere
  • 2007-2008 Central European University. M.A. Political Science. 
  • 2004-2007 University of Maastricht. B.A. European Studies. 
  • Summer 2017 and summer 2018 Introduction to Sociology. Evangelische Hochschule Berlin.

  • Winter 2016/17 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie.

    Course:     Muslims in Europe from Cultural-Anthropological perspectives
  • Since 2016 Freie Universität Berlin. FU-BEST program.

    Course:     Islam and Europe: Contemporary and Historical Dimensions
  • 2011-2017 Europa-Universität Viadrina. Professur für Vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie.

    Course:     Secularism, Gender and Religious Practice within Islam; Anthropology of Islam; Islam within Secularism and the Public Sphere; Islam and Muslims in Europe; Identities of Turkish Migrants Germany; Turkish-German Cinema from Anthropological Perspectives, : Islam and Gender; Muslims in the Public Sphere; Islam and Secularism; 

Secularism, Islam, Anthropology of Religion, Gender, Critical Theory, Post-Colonial Studies

  •  “Les musulmans seculier en espaces publiques en Allemagne”. In En-quête de l'islam européen, ed. Nilüfer Göle, Editions Haifa: France, 2015.