Gökce Yurdakul is Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict at the Humboldt University and the Chair in the Department of Foundations of Migration Research at the Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research.  She is a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at the Harvard University in the Spring semester 2019.  During her stay, she was affiliated with the Comparative Inequalities and Inclusion Research Cluster. 

She has published books and articles on immigrant integration, citizenship, Islam in Europe and issues of Muslim women in Western Europe and North America. She has written articles for scholarly journals, such as Annual Review of Sociology, Social Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and German Politics and Society.

Her most recent book is The Headscarf Debates: Conflict in National Narratives (2014, Stanford University Press, with Anna Korteweg). Yurdakul and Korteweg started a new book-length project on The Politics of Non-Belonging.