Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Ezgi Guner received her BA degree in Cultural Studies from Sabanci University, Istanbul. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation research focuses on the articulation of race and religion with global capital accumulation in the context of Turkey's contemporary relations with sub-Saharan Africa. With support from SSRC, Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Graduate College at UIUC, Guner conducted a multisited ethnography with business organizations, state institutions, faith-based NGOs and Islamic schools in Turkey, Tanzania, Senegal, Benin and Gambia. She was a visiting fellow in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University in 2018. Supported by the Ernst Mach Grant, she is currently a visiting fellow at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz where she is completing her dissertation.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
African Studies
Ethnography
Turkish Studies
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Specialties
Global Capitalism, Social Movements, Immigration
Languages
English (fluent)
Turkish (native)
French (elementary)
Education
BA
| 2009
| Cultural Studies
| Sabanci University
Abstracts
Turkish Sufi Curricula in Muslim Africa
