Ufuk Topkara

Ufuk Topkara studied history and philosophy at Humboldt University of Berlin and Harvard University. He earned his doctorate through the Graduate Program in Islamic Theology. His academic career includes a junior professorship in comparative theology from an Islamic perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology at Humboldt University, postdoctoral work in the University of Connecticut’s Humility & Conviction in Public Life Program, and appointments as a visiting scholar at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University and as a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion at the University of Virginia.