PD Dr. Khanna Usoyan (Omarkhali)

Priv.-Doz.: Venia Legendi in Iranistik; Habilitation im Fach Iranistik an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen. Habilitationsschrift: "The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written. Categories, Transmission, Scripturalisation and Canonisation of the Yezidi Oral Religious Texts."

Ph.D.: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Department of Religion and Religious Studies. Thesis Title: "Caste System in Yezidism", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

M.A.: Master in Eastern, African Studies in the specialisation of the Religions of the peoples of Asia and Africa, Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Philology, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

B.A.: Bachelor in Eastern, African Studies in the specialisation of the Iranian philology and Kurdish Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Department of Iranian Philology, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Researcher for Kurdish Studies (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für Kurdologie) at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/iranistik/mitarbeiter/wimis/usoyan/index.html

Research fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe, the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, with the project “From Orthopraxy to Orthodoxy – Christian Influences on Yezidism in the Diaspora? The Discourse on Canonisation, Standardisation and Unification of Tradition among Yezidis in Western Europe”, Bochum.

Researcher (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at Georg-August University of Göttingen, Institute of Iranian Studies, Göttingen.

Member of the Academic Board of the International Private Institute for the Study of Kurdish Societies (IISKS), Göttingen.

Responsible for setting up of the Iranian and Kurdish Digital Audio Archive in the Institute of Iranian Studies in Göttingen.

Member of the Cultural and Scientific Council, the Kurdish Institute in Paris, France.

Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) in Kurdish Studies at Georg-August University Göttingen, the Institute of Iranian Studies, Göttingen.

Bursar of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 896/2 "Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder", with the project "Yezidi Religious Texts: Their Theological Implications with Some References to the Ahl-e Haqq Religious Tradition", Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Consultant to the Advisory Committee on the creation of the state religious examination for the Department of Justice of Russian Federation, during work on the decision concerning the world's first official registration of the Yezidi religious organisation.

Academic assistant (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) in the DFG project "Kulturelles Gedächtnis der Yezidi-Gemeinschaft in Deutschland hinsichtlich religiöser Fragen", under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Ph. G. Kreyenbroek, Georg-August University Göttingen.