Sultan Doughan

Sultan Doughan is a lecturer (assistant professor) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also the Convenor of the MA Anthropology and Museum Practice. As a political anthropologist, she specialized in the secular governance of religious difference within liberal democracies in Europe. She is currently working on two book projects. A co-edited volume with Hanan Toukan titled Europe’s Question of Palestine: The Politics of Erasure and Refusal in Germany and Beyond and her monograph project tentatively titled Converting Citizens: German Secularism and the Politics of Holocaust Memory after Gaza is based on fieldwork in Germany and approaches citizenship as a practice & technology of secular conversion.

Her main concern is how debates on memory, race, and religious difference after the genocide of European Jewry generate, shape, and minoritize Middle Eastern communities as Muslim. She explores how the memory of violence inscribes state-funded educational institutions in Germany to become arbiters of injury, as such hierarchizing suffering and belonging with grave consequences for contemporary migrant communities and their access to legal and political rights. She further focuses on migrant archival practices, memorial and museum spaces for purposes of repair amidst ongoing state & police violence and the deferral of justice.