Ayse Caglar

Ayse Caglar is University Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna since 2011 and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna since 2018. She received her PhD at McGill University, Department of Anthropology and Habilitation in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Free University, Berlin. Before joining the University of Vienna she was a professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest and she was a Minerva Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. She has held visiting professorships and fellowships in several universities in Europe. She is a member of Academia Europaea and the Science Academy Society of Turkey. Caglar has widely published on the processes and interfaces of migration, urban restructuring, dispossession, displacement, confined labor, extractive and cultural industries, as well as on the entanglements between states and transnationalization processes with a special focus on cities. She directs the Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration at IWM together with the Calcutta Research Group Calcutta. She is also the Co-PI of the Research Platform The Challenge of Urban Futures: Governing the Complexities in European Cities at the University of Vienna.