Prof Esra Ozyurek is the Sultan Qaboos Professor in Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values at the Faculty of Divinity; academic director of Cambridge Interfaith Programme; and one of the directors of Global Humanities Initiative. Esra Ozyurek received her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and has taught at the University of California, San Diego and the London School of Economics before Cambridge. 

She is the author of Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey (Duke University Press, 2007), Being German Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe (Princeton University Press, 2015); Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Post-War Germany (Stanford University Press, 2022).