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Barbara Henning is Professor of Turkology at the University of Hamburg's Asia-Africa Institute. Previously a junior professor for Islamic History in the Eastern Mediterranean at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, she holds degrees in Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, Ethnology (BA), and Turkic Studies (MA) from Halle, Bamberg, and Paris. Her doctoral research at Bamberg (2016) examined the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani family. She has held positions at the German Foreign Office and participated in the DFG priority program Transottomanica.
Henning's research investigates Ottoman-Kurdish history, Arab provinces under Ottoman rule, imperial elites, identity/memory politics, and concepts of social boundary drawing. Current projects explore social differentiation among Prophet's descendants and post-Ottoman educational history in Northern Iraq.
She co-manages the 'Urban Differentiation Potentials' graduate program and holds memberships in DFG-GRK 2304 Byzantium and Euro-Mediterranean War Cultures, the DFG Network Post-Ottoman Transformations, and the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA).
