Dr. Barış Ülker 
Akademischer Mitarbeiter

Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 4
03046 Cottbus
LG 2B, R 1.16

Tel.   +49 355 - 69 2075
Fax.  +49 355 - 69 3046

uelker(at)b-tu.de

seit 2021Akademischer Mitarbeiter an der BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
2020 – 2021Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit, Technische Universität Berlin
Seit 2015Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
03/2015 – 05/2015Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit, Technische Universität Berlin
2014Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit, BAU Higher Education
2012 – 2014 Postdoc, University of Vienna, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWFT)
2004 - 2012Ph.D. Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University (Budapest/Vienna)
2001 - 2004M.A. Sociology, Middle East Technical University (Ankara)
1996 - 2001B.A. Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Istanbul)

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Guest Lectures:

June 2019 - “Production of Knowledge on Migrants.” University of North Carolina.

May 2019 - “Taking Care of Migrant Dead Bodies in Berlin.” Trinity University.

Mar 2019 - “Commodification of Migrant Identities.” Migration, Media and the Global City, New York University.

Feb 2019 - “Urban Temporalities and Restructuring.” Carleton College.

July 2017 - “Migration and Urban Development,” Union College.

June 2017 - “Refugees and Germany’s Crisis,” Grinnell College.

Paper Presentations:

Mar 2019 - “Governing through Pedal Power: Family Cargo Bikes in Berlin.” Urban Scene Investigation, University of Amsterdam, Center for Urban Studies, Amsterdam.

Apr 2018 - “Exile and Infrastructure as a Route to Modernity,”European Social Science History Conference, Belfast.

Nov 2017 - “Ruptures and Continuities of Migration History: Newcomers and Hosts in Berlin,” American Anthropological Association, 116th Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

Oct 2017 - “Taking Care of Migrants,” MigrantInnen als UnternehmerInnen? Aktuelle Debatten in Wissenschaft und Praxis, Vienna.

Sept 2017 - “Governing through Welcoming,” Migration and Discrimination, Cornell University – Mellon Collaborative Studies, Berlin.

Sept 2017 - “Urban Infrastructure as a Network of Connections,” Infrastructure and the Making of Urban Space: Critical Approaches, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.

July 2017 - “Sustainability through Ethnic Entrepreneurship,” Panel: Europe and Migration, International Conference of Europeanists, 24th Annual Conference, Glasgow.

Oct 2016 - “Postcards and Mobilities in Exile,” German Studies Association, 40th Annual Conference, San Diego.

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Books and Edited Volumes

Barış Ülker and Maria do Mar Castro Varela (eds.) Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation (Opladen, Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2020).

Barış Ülker, Enterprising Migrants in Berlin (Bielefeld, New York: Transcript/Columbia University Press, 2016).

Barış Ülker and Heinz Reif (eds.), Challenges and Inspirations: Ernst Reuter as an Urban Reformer in Turkey (Berlin: Be.Bra Wissenschaft Verlag, 2015).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Barış Ülker, Book Review, “Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933, by Parker Daly Everett,” German History, (forthcoming 2021).

Barış Ülker, “Reuter and Urban Reform,” Special Issue: Reuter – A Mirror on Berlin, Unterweiss, (forthcoming 2021).

Barış Ülker, “Migrant Mobilities through Postcards” in Esra Akcan and Iftikhar Dadi (eds.) Migration and Discrimination (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2020).

Barış Ülker, “Measuring, Exhibiting, and Mobilizing Tolerance in Berlin” in Barış Ülker and Maria do Mar Castro Varela (eds.) Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation (Opladen, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2020).

Barış Ülker (with Maria do Mar Castro Varela), “Doing Tolerance and the Question of Urban Citizenship: An Introduction” in Barış Ülker and Maria do Mar Castro Varela (eds.) Doing Tolerance: Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation (Opladen, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2020).

Barış Ülker, “Mapping and Branding Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Berlin” Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Special Issue “Urban Politics on Ethnic Entrepreneurship. An Interdisciplinary Spatial Perspective” Antonie Schmiz and Tony Hernandez (eds.), Vol. 110, Issue 5, 2019, 553-565.

Barış Ülker, “Going Beyond Borders through Photography” in Tirza True Latimer and Thomas Haakenson (eds.) Becoming TransGerman (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019).

Barış Ülker, Book Review “Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany, by Kathleen James-Chakraborty,” German History, Volume 36, Issue 4, 2018, 677-679.

Barış Ülker, “Sürgünde Modern Şehircilik Aklının Terbiyesi [Educating the Rationality of Modern Urbanism in Exile],” Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], No: 295, 2018, 66-79.

Barış Ülker, “Ich, wir, die Anderen: Sozialanthropologische Einführung” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen. (Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 15-16.

Barış Ülker, “Zeit” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen. (Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 27-28.

Barış Ülker, “Raum” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen. (Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 47-48.

Barış Ülker, “Narration” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen. (Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 67-68.

Barış Ülker, “Mobilität” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen. (Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 87-88.

Barış Ülker, “Krise” in Claudia Schmidt und Ramona Nietzold (eds.) Ich, Wir, Die Anderen.
(Dresden: SKD Museum, 2018), 109-110.

Barış Ülker, “Governing through Ethnic Entrepreneurship” in Karin Bauer and Jennifer Hosek (eds.), Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 203-227.

Barış Ülker, “Urbanization and Modern Governmental Reason: Ernst Reuter’s Exile in Turkey,” in S. Ozil, M. Hofmann and Y. Dayioglu-Yücel (eds), Jahrbuch türkish-deutsche Studien. Special Issue, Turkish-German Studies: Past, Present and Future (Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2015).