Özyeğin University

Susan Rottmann is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. She obtained her B.A. degree in Comparative Religion from Cornell University in 2001, her M.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006, and her Ph.D. degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012. She has received several major grants for her research, including a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute of Turkish Studies.

Between 2017-2021, she was a Primary Investigator for the European Commission funded HORIZON 2020 project, RESPOND- Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. Currently, she is a cooperation partner on the project “Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World” as part of the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP) (2022-2025). She is also the Project Coordinator for a TÜBİTAK 1001 (The Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program of Turkey) grant for the project: "Food, Homemaking and Social Integration for Syrian Women in Istanbul, Gaziantep and Hatay" / "İstanbul, Gaziantep ve Hatay’daki Suriyeli Kadınların Yemek, Ev-Yapımı ve Sosyal Uyumu" (Project ID: 122K209; 2022-2025).

Rottmann has published in a wide variety of international peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Refugee Studies, Migration Studies and Critical Sociology. Her recent book, In Pursuit of Belonging: Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces (Berghahn Books - 2019) draws on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology to convey the struggle to forge an ethical life as a Muslim woman in transnational space.