Dr. Christoph Ramm Scientific Assistant, Main Responsible for Turkish Language Teaching Office S 115 Postal Address University of Bern Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies Lerchenweg 36 3012 Bern Consultation Hour by arrangement via email
Academic Career Since February 2018 Member of the Teaching Staff and main responsible for the teaching of Turkish language and history at the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO), University of Bern. 2022-2023 Research Associate at the Forum Islam and Middle East (FINO), University of Bern. 2012-2018 Research Associate for Turkish Studies at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology, University of Bern. 2009-2012 Managing Director of the TürkeiEuropaZentrum, University of Hamburg (Germany). 2009-2010 Research Associate at the Asia Africa Institute, Department of History and Culture of the Middle East, University of Hamburg (Germany). 2009 PhD (Title: Turkish Cypriots, Turkish ‘Settlers’ and (Trans)National Identities between Turkish Nationalism, Cypriotism and Europe). 2005-2008 Research Associate at the Faculty of History (South-East European History / Ottoman-Turkish History), Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). 2001-2005 Teacher at a vocational college in Cologne (Germany). 2000-2010 Teaching Assignment for Turkish Language and Turkish Area Studies at the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn (Germany). 1999-2000 Teaching Assignment at the Department of Translation and Interpretation, University of Mersin (Turkey). 1999 University Diploma Translation Studies Turkish/English, Department for Oriental Languages, University of Bonn (Germany).
Research interests Modern And Contemporary History of Turkey (19th-21st Century) Social and Cultural History in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic Nationalism and Identity Construction Transnationalism, Migration, and Islam in Europe (Post)Colonialism, Civilizing Missions, and Racism Turkish Foreign Policy and The European Union
