Neslihan Dogan obtained a Master in History (Ghent University, 2017). After her Master's degree she was not quite ready to say goodbye to the University of Ghent, so she did the teacher training (Ghent University, 2019) and obtained a Master in Conflict and Development (Ghent University, 2020). While working on her Master thesis about migrant women in 2020, she did an internship at the Flemish Public Broadcast (VRT) and worked on the documentary series 'Children of Migration' ('Kinderen van de migratie'). After her studies she discovered a passion for migration heritage and did oral history projects for Red Star Line Museum and Amsab-Institute for Social History (Amsab-ISG). Between 2020 and 2024 she worked at Stam City Museum of Ghent and focused mainly on participatory heritage projects about migration and neighbourhood history. She has a special interest in history from below, community heritage and archives.
Since January 2025 she works as a PHD researcher at the history department and at the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at Ghent University , diving into migration trajectories of Turkish migrant women of the first generation and their role in arrival infrastructures and solidarity networks in Ghent from the 1960s until the 1980s. This research is done under the supervision of prof. dr. Gita Deneckere, prof. dr. Chia Longman and prof. dr. Margo De Koster.
In her free time you can find Neslihan guiding through neighbourhoods and moderating conversations about feminism, movies, archives, heritage and migration history.
