Welcome to KFG Fellow Brian Van Wyck
16.05.2023
We are glad to welcome our first Junior Fellow Prof. Dr. Brian Van Wyck at the KFG.
Brian Van Wyck is a historian and assistant professor at the University of Maryland. He specializes in the history of migration from Turkey to West Germany. His current research focuses on how West Germans and Turks grappled with the permanent presence of Turkish guest workers, refugees, and their families in West Germany from the 1960s onward. In the summer term 2023, he is a junior fellow at the KFG in Munich, focussing his research on Islam and the Making of Turkish Difference in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1961-2006.
