Team
The current team of the research group "Just Geographies" consists of six members: Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı as chair; Dr. Adnan Mirhanoğlu as postdoctoral researcher; Dr. Güllistan Yarkın and Dr. Senem Doyduk as two visiting researchers (funded by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung); Sophia Bock as student assistant (WHK); and Anna Wagner as secretariat.
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 13:00-15:00 (WiSe 2025/26)
Key aspects of activity
- The politics of ecology, geology, and resilience
- Political violence, its legacies, and activist/grassroots responses to it
- Qualitative methods (especially ethnography)
- Turkey, Kurdistan, Greece, 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: Anna Wagner
Foreign Language Employee, Secretariat
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Room: 503, Geomatikum