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About Armanc Yildiz
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University. I received my Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with a secondary field in Studies in Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. My research broadly explores the intersections of spirituality and religion, sexuality, the body, science, and medicine in Europe. I also knit, sing, and read Tarot cards.Armanc Yildiz is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, with a secondary degree in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His research broadly explores the intersections of spirituality and religion, sexuality, the body, science, and medicine in Europe.
NBN Episodes hosted by Armanc:
September 29, 2026
Smuggling Law
The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, trans…
September 7, 2026
Inhabiting Silence
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by…
September 7, 2026
Standardizing Sex
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (U Chicago Press, 2025) traces the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia in the twentieth century,…
September 2, 2026
Artifactual
In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, act…
May 17, 2026
Temptations in Ruin
Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) examines the political-economic afterl…
January 4, 2026
On the Semicivilized
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis o…
October 7, 2025
The Game
To seek asylum, people often have to cross borders undocumented, embarking on perilous trajectories. Due to the war in Afghanistan, the rule of the Ta…
June 23, 2025
Racializing Caste
Racializing Caste: Anthropology Between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970) (De Gruyter, 2025) analyzes how racial knowledge…
April 17, 2025
Living Right
Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton Unive…
May 14, 2024
The Color of Desire
The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany After 1970 (Cornell UP, 2024) tells the story of how, in the afterm…
January 21, 2024
Hard Luck and Heavy Rain
In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the r…
January 12, 2024
The Queer Art of History
In The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadl…
December 11, 2023
Anders als Die Andern
Released in 1919, "Anders als die Andern" (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters c…
October 5, 2023
Gendered Fortunes
In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunet…
September 8, 2023
A Vital Frontier
In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as the…
August 10, 2023
Subcontractors of Guilt
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not …
July 26, 2023
Sexual Self-Fashioning
Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Wester…
May 19, 2023
Istanbul Appearances
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly c…
March 28, 2023
The Avatar Faculty
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels betw…
January 16, 2023
Voices That Matter
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclu…
December 13, 2022
Becoming the Writer You Already Are
Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they …
July 15, 2022
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist…
June 24, 2022
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of…
June 1, 2022
Minoritarian Liberalism
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at…