#  Brian Van Wyck 

 

 



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**Brian Van Wyck** received his PhD in History from Michigan State University in 2019. His book project, currently titled *Turkish Teachers and Imams in Postwar Germany: Race, Islam, and Belonging,*examines two groups tasked with seeing to the education and spiritual needs of West Germany’s largest immigrant population. The policies, practices, and debates surrounding the hiring, supervision, and activities of relatively small numbers of teachers and imams are used in the project as a lens to offer insight into what a broad spectrum of state and civil society stakeholders in both countries believed they knew about Turkish Germans, what differentiated them from the German majority or Turks in Turkey proper, and what interventions were made necessary by that difference. His broader research explores intersecting histories of knowledge, race, and migration in Europe and the Middle East. Van Wyck received a BA in History from Williams College and a MA in Nationalism Studies from Central European University. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, and the Free University Berlin Program, among others, and his work has appeared in *Geschichte und Gesellschaft.*

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2019 - 2020](/fellowship-year/2019-2020)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)