Team
The current team of the research group "Just Geographies" consists of six members: Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı is the head of the research groupm one scientific staff Dr. Adnan Mirhanoğlu (Postdoctoral researcher), two visiting researcher Dr. Güllistan Yarkın and Dr. Senem Doyduk, as well as one student assistant (WHK) Sophia Bock and one administrative staff Anna Wagner.

Photo: Eray Cayli
Professor of Human Geography with a Focus on Violence and Security in the Anthropocene
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum
Tel: +49 40 42838-5217
Email: eray.cayli"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Office hours
- Wednesdays 14:00-16:00 (WiSe 2024/25)
Key aspects of activity
- Ecology and resilence
- Political violence, its legacies, and activist/grassroots responses to it
- Qualitative methods (especially ethnography)
- Turkey, Kurdistan, and their environs and diasporas
- Material/visual culture (art, architecture, landscape)

Photo: Adnan Mirhanoğlu
Key aspects of activity
- Political Ecology
- Water governance
- Critical Institutionalism
- Science and Technology Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods

Photo: Güllistan Yarkin
Guest researcher
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum
Email: gullistanyarkin"AT"gmail.com
Key aspects of activity
- Racism, Racialized Systems and Everyday Racism
- Anti-racism and Everyday Anti-racism
- Turkey and Kurdistan
- Historical Sociology
- Political Economy

Photo: Senem Doyduk
Key aspects of activity
- Cultural Studies
- Urban Conservation
- Urban Transformation and Urban Resistance
- History, Theory of Conservation
- Politics of Space and Architecture

Photo: Sophia Bock
student and research assistant
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg

Photo: Milena Schmiegel
Research Intern
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 527, Geomatikum

Photo: Anna Wagner
Foreign Language Employee, Secretariat
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 503, Geomatikum