Birgitte Stampe Holst

Birgitte Stampe Holst is an associated researcher at the Leibniz Center for Modern Orient (since 2024) and a former postdoc at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (2021-2023). Her work focuses on political anthropology and migration studies, particularly examining how memories of authoritarianism shape Syrian refugees' political subjectivity in Germany, Denmark, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan.

• Research: Ethnographic studies on Syrian refugees' political adaptation, social change, and urban ethnography in host countries.
• Awards: Carlsberg Foundation Internationalization Fellowship (2022) for research on post-authoritarian political thinking.
• Publications: Key themes include displacement, spatial rupture, collaborative methodologies with refugee youth, and memory dynamics.

Teaching: Taught courses on migration, cultural negotiation, and normality/deviation at the University of Copenhagen and Aalborg University.