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Araştırma Alanları
Sociology of Health and Illness (1)
Sociology of Care (1)
End of Life Studies (1)
Disability Studies (1)
Politics of Rehabilitation and the Body (1)
Culture (2)
sociology of intellectuals (1)
sociology of art and literature (1)
field theory (1)
comparative and historical method (1)
secularization (1)
secularism (1)
and secularity (1)
power-states in the 21st century (1)
Weber (1)
Simmel (1)
civic republicanism in sociology (1)
I am a historical sociologist of culture and religion with a specific focus on intellectuals. My most recent work (1)
on the forms of secularization in Turkish literary milieus (1)
was published in New Perspectives on Turkey and the American Journal of Sociology. I am currently on leave as a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University to develop this project into a book. I am also writing a Turkish-language book on civic republicanism and developing journal articles on populism (1)
reputational trajectories of dominated intellectuals (1)
and the links among the freedom of expression (1)
high-end technological development (1)
and security. My past work (1)
on politicization dynamics among U.S. poets (1)
was published in Political Power and Social Theory and in the American Sociological Review. (1)
Forensic Fantasies (1)
I am a medical anthropologist with an interest in the intersections of human rights (1)
gender (2)
politics of care and body. I am currently working on my book manuscript tentatively titled (1)
Documenting Bodies: Forensic Medicine Experts And Human Rights In Turkey. Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2011-2013) in human rights NGOs and forensic medicine institutions in Istanbul (1)
the manuscript examines non-therapeutic clinical encounters and forensic documents as determinants of forms of violence in Turkey. I am also developing a second ethnographic project on kidney patients who go through both live-kidney transplantation and dialysis. My ethnographic research at the Kidney Foundation Hospital in Istanbul explores how patients and families deal with the hidden risks and dangers of routinization of live kidney transplant and techno-scientific imaginaries associated with it. My third ethnographic project concerns how patients attendants (refakatçı) are called upon to liaise with hospital staff. I am interested in how individuals (1)
families (1)
communities step in to account for (1)
or compensate for (1)
absences of care in biomedical expertise (1)
institutions and practices. My research has led to several publications in peer-reviewed journals including Medical Anthropology (1)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1)
Reproductive Health Matters and New Perspectives on Turkey. I have also published articles in peer-reviewed journals in Turkish such as Toplum ve Bilim (1)
Toplum ve Hekim and Moment Dergi. At Koç University (1)
I teach classes in social anthropology (1)
contemporary social theory and ethnographic research methods and writing. (1)
Sociology of migration (1)
race and ethnicity (1)
sociology of education (1)
My primary fields of interests are the sociology of migration and education. My current works examine how the institutions (1)
particularly educational institutions (1)
respond the increasingly diversifying populations through immigrants and refugees. I am also investigating the formation of ethnic and symbolic boundaries between majority societies and immigrants and refugees in countries such as Turkey (1)
Germany (1)
Lebanon and the United States. I am recently working on a book manuscript to report the findings of this research. My earlier works on the identity formation and integration of the second generation youth appeared in the journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies (1)
Identities: Global Studies and Culture and Power (1)
British Journal of Sociology of Education (1)
and International Migration. (1)
race (1)
ethnicity (2)
and nationalism (1)
crime and deviance (1)
science and technology (1)
death and dying. (1)
My research interests revolve broadly around issues of formation of boundaries and identities. My earlier work on popular music examined how the boundaries between high and low aesthetic tastes were created and contested. I also worked on race (1)
and nationalism in the context of early republican (1923-1950) and contemporary Turkey (1)
analyzing the linkages between whiteness (1)
Turkishness (1)
and modernity as well as East and West. In contemporary Turkey (1)
my research agenda is concerned with tracing the causes of interethnic conflict and prejudices. Death and dying has been another social domain in which I addressed issues of boundaries and identities. In a recent project (1)
I studied death announcements published in a nationally circulated daily newspaper in Turkey in the last 40 years and observed the ways in which class distinction (1)
cultural capital (1)
gendered and ethnic inequalities (1)
and consumption patterns emerged as important categories to locate the identities of the deceased and the bereaved in social and cultural hierarchies. My work on cultural and moral boundaries in Turkish society investigates the processes through which groups and individuals define their identities and distinguish themselves from the others using status symbols. These status symbols are structured by cultural consumption habits (such as music (1)
literary and media consumption habits) (1)
residential patterns (1)
level of education and socio-economic status among others. My broad goals in this regard are to examine the construction and maintenance as well as crossing of boundaries in terms of the relationships between socio-economic variables (1)
cultural consumption habits and moral judgments. The inquiry about moral boundaries involves the study of ideas and attitudes about religion (1)
secularism and politics as well as abstract notions such as honesty and work ethics. (1)
Sociology of education (1)
social policy (1)
youth studies (1)
gender and education (1)
Comparative and historical sociology (1)
development sociology (1)
political sociology (3)
I joined the Koç University faculty in 2015 after completing a PhD in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. My scholarly interests include political economy (1)
historical sociology (3)
rural development (1)
social movements (2)
and welfare politics (1)
with a focus on China (1)
India (1)
and Turkey. I teach courses on social theory (1)
and Asian political economy. I was a Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University in 2006-07 and a visiting researcher at the Center for Rural China Governance at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2012 (1)
the Center for Development Studies in Trivandrum (1)
Kerala in 2013 (1)
and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in Summer 2016. (1)
Migration Studies (1)
Citizenship (2)
International Organizations (1)
Civil Society (1)
Nationalism and Ethnicity (1)
Migration (1)
Ethnography (1)
Diaspora (1)
Syrian refugees in Turkey and the Middle East (1)
Sociology of Family (1)
Asian Studies. (1)
International Migration (1)
Governance (1)
Gender Studies (1)
Urban Studies (1)
Social Policy (1)
Social welfare (1)