2014. - 2018.

Doctor of Philosophy

Political Science (summa cum laude)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair Comparative Democracy and the Political Systems of Eastern Europe, and external supervision by Ronald G. Suny, University of Michigan, Department of History

2011. - 2014.

Master of Arts

German-Turkish Masters Programme in Social Sciences (GET MA)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Middle East Technical University Ankara

2008. - 2011.

Bachelor of Arts

Middle Eastern Studies

Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg

2025. -

University of Rijeka

Research fellow in the ERC-project "REVENANT - Revivals of Empire" (Prof. Dr. Jeremy Walton)

Department of Cultural Studies

2020. - 2025.

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

Research fellow and sole principal investigator of the "Relicts of (Another) Future? – The Afterlife of the Socialist City in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Research unit "Representations of the Past"

2018. - 2019.

University of Michigan

Manoogian postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer

Department of Sociology (LSA College)

2021.

CESS Book Award (Central Eurasian Studies Society)

2018.

Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Michigan)

2015.

Doctoral Fellowship (Hansen-Stiftung)

2014.

Predoctoral field mobility (Erasmus Mundus)

2011.

Humboldt Excellence Fellowship

2026. -

Resource scholars and experts for the Monterey Symposium (Middlebury Institute for International Studies) Link: https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/monterey-initiative-russian-studies/monterey-summer-symposium-on-4-1

2024. -

European Society for Central Asian Studies

2026.

Mobile Histories, Activated Memories: Mnemonic Infrastructures and Global Souths

David Leupold; Norman Saadi Nikro (eds)

Transdisciplinary Souths Book Series

Routledge New York / Delhi

https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Histories-Activated-Memories-Mnemonic-Infrastructures--Contested-Souths/Nikro-Leupold/p/book/9781041431619

2026.

Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities. Urban Futures and their Afterlives

David Leupold

Routledge New York

https://www.routledge.com/The-Death-and-Life-of-Southern-Soviet-Cities-Urban-Futures-and-their-Afterlives/Leupold/p/book/9781032982847

2020.

Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish Memory (winner of the 2021 CESS book award)

David Leupold

Routledge New York / London

https://www.routledge.com/Embattled-Dreamlands-The-Politics-of-Contesting-Armenian-Kurdish-and-Turkish-Memory/Leupold/p/book/9780367361440

2022. - 2025.

Relicts of (Another) Future? – The Afterlife of the Socialist City in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient

https://gepris.dfg.de/project/462569707?lang=en

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 344.990 €