Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of British Columbia. My research interests include transnational sexualities, migration, asylum, waiting, humanitarianism, and queer and critical race theory with a specific focus on the Middle East and its diasporas as well as collaborative, multimodal, and social justice-oriented approaches to knowledge production.
I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology (2021) at Cornell University with a concentration in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Before coming to the field of anthropology, I received an M.A. (2014) in Near Eastern Studies at New York University and a B.A. (2011) in Political Sciences and International Relations at Bogazici University in Turkey, where I was born and raised. In 2022, I was the Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. I serve as a co-editor for the Turkey page at Jadaliyya, an independent e-zine that provides critical analysis and pedagogy on the most pressing issues related to the Middle East and North Africa.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Transnationalism
Queer/LGBT Studies
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Iran
Other
Specialties
Queer Asylum; Humanitarianism; Carcerality
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Anthropology
| Cornell University
MA
| 2014
| Near Eastern Studies
| New York University Hagop Kevorkian Center
BA
| 2012
| Political Sciences and International Relations
| Bogazici University
Abstracts
Not So ‘Golden’ Anymore: Iranian LGBTI Refugees in Turkey
The Cultural Politics of Waiting and Iranian LGBTQ Refugees in Turkey
Carceral Politics of LGBTQ Asylum
