Susan Rottmann

Susan Rottmann is a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology planning dissertation research with Turkish immigrants to Germany. After a year at the University of Heidelberg, Susan began exploring the complex interactions between Turkish immigrants, native Germans, and the German nation-state. Susan’s research explores how Germany’s Turkish Muslim minority is navigating conflicting religious, ethnic, and national meanings and identities. This summer in Istanbul, Turkey, with support from the Scott Kloeck-Jenson award, Susan will begin exploring the ideas and practices of present and former immigrants as well as documenting the experiences of immigrant’s friends and relatives who have stayed behind in Turkey. She is also interested in Turkish thoughts about Germans, the European Union and, more generally, transnationalism. Interviews with social science scholars and others, participant observation and archival research will lay the groundwork for her dissertation.

Read Susan’s post-fellowship report here.