Dr. Latife Akyüz received her PhD from Middle East Technical University (METU) with her 2013 dissertation titled “Ethnicity and Gender Dynamics of Living in Borderlands: The Case of Hopa-Turkey.” She has held positions as a visiting scholar at Indiana University (2010), Binghamton University (2011-12) and the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies at Liege University (2014). She worked as an assistant professor at Duzce University from 2014 until 2016, when she – like many other Academics for Peace – was dismissed from her position. Forced to flee, Dr. Akyuz began working as a Philipp Schwartz Fellow at Goethe University in 2016 where she stayed until 2019. Her research interests include border regions, migration, ethnicity, and gender. Dr. Akyüz currently works as a Senior Einstein Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.