Dr. Naomi Shulman

About

Naomi Shulman is the director of the Research Forum on Public Safety and Security and the scientific coordinator of the project BeLIFE, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. She designs and implements various knowledge-transfer formats for audiences in academia, professional practice, and politics.

In 2011, Naomi Shulman earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at UC Berkeley under Judith Butler, with a dissertation on ethical responsibilities in communicating survival of the Shoah. She has held research fellowships at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C., the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Max Kade Foundation.

From 2009 to 2014, Naomi Shulman taught at universities in France and the US. From 2014 to 2023, she worked as a translator and editor with a focus on legal sciences. She also studied interdisciplinary Futures Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Naomi Shulman is interested in the relationships between social change and technological development and in how society and politics address change. In 2024, she received the Young Researchers’ Award from the Network for Futures Studies for her work “Times of Crisis.”

Research Group: Digitalization and Networked Security