Sultan Doughan

Sultan Doughan is a political anthropologist engaging questions of citizenship, memory, religious difference as race in Germany, Europe, and the Middle East. She is particularly interested in how state-citizen relations and personhood in liberal democracies are built and function through violent histories, social norms, and national morals practiced in educational contexts such as museums, memorial sites, and civic education. Her book project Converting Citizens: German Secularism and the Politics of Holocaust Memory centres secularism on the question of history. Here, she engages citizenship as a practice of ‘secular conversion’ and asks how participatory politics is enabled by socially acceptable claims to injury. Doughan teaches in the department of anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also convenes the MA programme in Anthropology & Museum Practice.