Dr. Noa K. Ha
Scientific Managing Director National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) Head of institute Staff Unit Scientific Direction National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) Staff Unit Scientific Direction
E-mail: ha(at)dezim-institut.de fon: 0049 (0) 30 200754-105 // Assistenz: -108Dr. Noa K. Ha is an urban, migration and racism researcher.
Dr. Noa K. Ha is the scientific director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). She led the Center for Integration Studies at the Technische Universität Dresden as Executive Director and Junior Research Group Leader from 2018 to 2020. From July 2020 to September 2021, she already acted as a temporary replacement for the scientific management at the DeZIM Institute and also represented the management of the office of the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa) there until March 2022.
Dr. Noa K. Ha is an urban researcher by training and most recently taught as a guest lecturer at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Previously, she conducted research at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS) at the Technische Universität Berlin. She is a member of numerous municipal advisory boards and advises research projects in the field of postcolonial remembrance work and commemorative politics, integration research and criticism of racism, and migration history in East Germany.
Dr. Noa K. Ha thus combines management and research experience in East and West and publishes internationally in anthologies, journals and catalogs.
Research focus
- Migration and social change
- Post- and decolonial urban studies (focus on Europe)
- Urban memory practices
- Racism/Exoticization/Asian Diaspora
- Intersectional, feminist, postcolonial and decolonial theory