Dr. Yasemin Shooman
Former Scientific Managing Director Head of institute
Dr. Yasemin Shooman is a historian and served as the Academic Managing Director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM Institute) from September 2019 to August 2022. Her research focuses on racism, anti-Muslim racism, antisemitism, Jewish-Muslim relations in historical and contemporary contexts, and cultures of remembrance in migration societies. From 2013 to 2019, she led the academy programs at the Jewish Museum Berlin, overseeing the "Migration & Diversity" program and the Jewish-Muslim Forum. In 2013, she earned her PhD from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin, with a dissertation on anti-Muslim discourses.
Dr. Shooman has served on various expert councils and advisory boards, including the Council on Migration, the Historical Advisory Board to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin, the Board of Trustees of the Freudenberg Foundation, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Avicenna Studienwerk.
From January 2019 to January 2021, she was a member of the Expert Commission on the Framework Conditions for Integration Capacity in Germany, appointed by the Federal Government. In September 2020, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community, Horst Seehofer, appointed her to the Independent Expert Group on Hostility towards Muslims (UEM). In February 2021, she was also appointed by the Senator for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination, Dr. Dirk Behrendt, to the Expert Commission on Anti-Muslim Racism in the State of Berlin.