Dr. Lucas Cé Sangalli Awarded for Best Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen has awarded Dr. Lucas Cé Sangalli with the 2023/24 prize for the best doctoral thesis for his research on migration from Sudan to Germany and Jordan. His dissertation, “Migrants from Sudan in Germany and Jordan: Changing Belongings in the Context of Life and Family Histories,” was recognized during the faculty’s graduation ceremony in November 2024.

Dr. Cé Sangalli’s research provides a comparative analysis of Sudanese diasporic experiences in Germany and Jordan, shedding light on the intergenerational transmission of memories and knowledges among migrants from Sudan. By integrating the sociology of knowledge, figurational sociology, and historical sociology, he reconstructs in how far different experiences of violence have been transmitted across generations of Sudanese migrants and their descendants. His work uses a social constructivist figurational and biographical approach to reconstruct how different versions of the past develop, gain more or less legitimacy, and become contested among different Sudanese groupings. His thesis empirically shows how these versions of the past are used to legitimize the perpetration of violence, distance the family history from accusations of perpetration of violence, and back up asylum claims in different societies.
The thesis, graded summa cum laude, was defended at the University of Göttingen in January 2024, and was supervised by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Göttingen). The thesis committee was formed by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schultz (Friedensau Adventist University) and Prof. Dr. Maria Pohn-Lauggas (Ruhr University Bochum). The work has been published as an open-access book by Göttingen University Press in the Göttingen Series in Sociological Biographical Research (Volume 11).

Dr. Sangalli currently works in the international research project Individual and Collective Memories of Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Contrastive Comparison of Different Communities, Generations, and Groupings in Ghana and Brazil, funded by the German Research Foundation, and based at the Chair of Qualitative Methods of Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum.

Cé Sangalli, Lucas (2024): Migrants from Sudan in Germany and Jordan. Changing Belongings in the Context of Life and Family Histories. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
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