Onur Suzan Nobrega (PhD) is a professor of migration, transculturality, and internationalization at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Sociology, specializing in culture and migration as well as women's and gender studies, at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She received her doctorate in Media and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a thesis on post-migrant theater in Berlin, funded by a scholarship from the ZEIT Foundation in Hamburg. Since 2008, Nobrega has been active internationally in teaching and research, working transdisciplinarily on the topics of racism, colonialism, and intersectionality. Nobrega is a member of the Council for Migration, was a jury member with expertise in theater for the Berlin Senate Department for Culture in 2023, and is active on the board of the professional association DeKolonial for anti-racist, postcolonial, and decolonial theory and practice between 2021 and 2024. She participates in anti-racist movements locally and internationally and works as a curator with art and cultural institutions, including Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt. In Frankfurt am Main, she most recently conceived and curated the festival Hayat Habibi*s: Ein Theaterfestival im Allerheiligenviertel. In 2021, she published an anthology entitled Rassismus.Macht.Vergessen. Von München über den NSU bis Hanau. Symbolische und materielle Kämpfe entlang rechtsextremistischer Gewalt (Racism.Power.Forgetting. From Munich to Hanau via the NSU. Symbolic and material struggles alongside right-wing terror), co-edited with Jonas Zipf and Matthias Quent, published by transcript Verlag.
