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Biography

She received her BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Political Science from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. During her doctoral research, supported by Fulbright and Erasmus scholarships, she was a visiting researcher at Northwestern University, Department of Political Science (2006–2007), and a visiting student at Leiden University, Department of Turkish Studies (2010). She was awarded the title of Associate Professor in Political Science in January 2026.

She has held academic positions in the Departments of Media and Communication and Sociology at İzmir University of Economics, as well as at the Faculty of Law at Cyprus Social Sciences University. She has taught courses including Turkish Social Structure, Sociology of Crime, Sociology through Movies, Historical Sociology, Islam and Gender in Turkey, Law and Literature, Principles of Social Sciences I-II, and the History of the Women’s Rights Movement.

Her academic interests include social movements, political economy, religion, gender, and culture, with a particular emphasis on political and philosophical questions of difference, equality, justice, freedom, dialogue, and dissent, especially in the context of Ottoman and Turkish political, social, and cultural history. Her publications include the book Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Hoşgörü Söylemi (İletişim, 2017), chapters in edited volumes such as Düşünce Tarihinde Özgürlük (Doğu Batı, 2022) and Değişen İzmir’i Anlamak (Phoenix, 2010), and articles in journals including Turkish Studies, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Extrapolation, Fe, and Monograf.

Her current research focuses on emerging regimes of citizenship in the contexts of neoliberalism, disasters, and working-class movements.
 

Biography

Biography

Biography