Dr. Rosa Burç
Researcher Migration Department National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa)
E-mail: burc(at)dezim-institut.deDr. Rosa Burç is a sociologist, who works as a research associate at the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) as part of the German National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa) and the Migration Department. She obtained her PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence/Italy, where she has been a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies. She specialized in transnational orders of violence, mobilization in conflict, and political imaginaries. Her work explores how narratives and repertoires of resistance travel across time and space, especially in Kurdistan and among stateless and marginalized communities. Her PhD, awarded the 2025 Honorable Mention for Best Dissertation by the American Political Science Association, traces the emotional afterlives of violence and modes of societal transformation.
She is an affiliated scholar of the Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research (INTERACT) at the FU Berlin. Previously, she was part of the working group "Macro Violence" at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS).
After her studies in Sociology and International Politics at SOAS, University of London, she taught at the Bonn University’s chair for comparative government. In 2023 she taught as a visiting lecturer at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg.
Research focus
- Social Movements and Mobilisation
- Political violence
- Racism
- Nationalism
- Alliances and solidarity
- Political Imaginaries
- Gender
- Ethnography