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 work is at the intersections of spirituality, body, Whiteness, knowledge, and value in postcolonial Germany and 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. He is also the founder of Academics Write, where he supports scholars in their writing projects as a writing coach and developmental editor.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Armanc:

Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022)

January 21, 2024

Hard Luck and Heavy Rain

Joseph C. Russo
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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…

Jennifer V. Evans, "The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism" (Duke UP, 2023)

January 12, 2024

The Queer Art of History

Jennifer V. Evans
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In The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadl…

Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)

December 11, 2023

Anders als Die Andern

Ervin Malakaj
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Released in 1919, "Anders als die Andern" (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Supporters c…

Zeynep K. Korkman, "Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey" (Duke UP, 2023)

October 5, 2023

Gendered Fortunes

Zeynep K. Korkman
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In Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey (Duke UP, 2023), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunet…

Andrea Muehlebach, "A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe" (Duke UP, 2023)

September 8, 2023

A Vital Frontier

Andrea Muehlebach
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In A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe (Duke University Press, 2023)) Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as the…

Esra Özyürek, "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany" (Stanford UP, 2023)

August 10, 2023

Subcontractors of Guilt

Esra Özyürek
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At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not …

Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

July 26, 2023

Sexual Self-Fashioning

Rahil Roodsaz
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Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Wester…

Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

May 19, 2023

Istanbul Appearances

Claudia Liebelt
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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…

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)

March 28, 2023

The Avatar Faculty

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
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The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels betw…

Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

January 16, 2023

Voices That Matter

Marlene Schäfers
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“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclu…

Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)

December 13, 2022

Becoming the Writer You Already Are

Michelle R. Boyd
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Becoming the Writer You Already Are (Sage, 2022) helps scholars uncover their unique writing process and design a writing practice that fits how they …

Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

July 15, 2022

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

Laurie Marhoefer
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In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist…

Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)

June 24, 2022

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

Marc David Baer
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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…

Moisés Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

June 1, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

Moisés Lino e Silva
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Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at…

Scott Stonington, "The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" (U California Press, 2020)

April 25, 2022

The Spirit Ambulance

Scott Stonington
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The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (University of California Press, 2020) is a journey into decision-making at the end o…

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020)

March 28, 2022

Parenting Empires

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
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In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020), Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses …

Elayne Oliphant, "The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

March 25, 2022

The Privilege of Being Banal

Elayne Oliphant
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France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At t…

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020)

December 17, 2021

The Moral Triangle

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
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Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest Israeli diaspora communities. Germany’s guilt about t…