Hacer Z. Gonul
Associate member
Hacer Z. Gonul is a postdoctoral researcher in the Remote Ethnography project (REMOTE XUAR) at Palacký University Olomouc and an associate member at the Research Center for the East Asian Studies (EASt) with more than a decade of research experience across China, including in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing. She received her PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with the scholarship from the FRESH (F.R.S- FNRS) and was a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge. She is one of the editors of the book Hui Muslims in China, published by Leuven University Press (2016). Her research critically examines how securitisation campaigns by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turn the country’s Muslim minorities into potential threats, while simultaneously seeking to legitimise the CCP’s narrow definition of "legitimate religious practice". Her research interests include ethnic and religious minorities in China, particularly - ethnicity, radicalization, Islam in China and securitisation policies with a special focus on the Hui and Uyghur communities.
