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Özlem Altıok is a feminist sociologist. She is a Principal Lecturer in Women's & Gender Studies, and International Studies, at the University of North Texas. She was jointly hired by the two programs in 2010 and has been teaching at UNT since. Prior to UNT, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she received her Ph.D. in sociology. She holds a master's degree in public administration from Texas A&M, and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Istanbul Bilgi University. Dr. Altıok teaches courses on globalization, international development, migration, global politics and human security, employing community-engaged learning and research in her classes.
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Democratization
Development
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Human Rights
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Political Economy
State Formation
Turkish Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Turkey
Specialties
Gender, Politics And Religion
Migration And Migrants' Rights
Social Movements And Resistance
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2014
| Sociology
| University of Wisconsin Madison
MA
| 2003
| School of Government and Public Service
| Texas A&M University
BA
| 2001
| International Relations
| Istanbul Bilgi University
Abstracts
Offloading powerlessness: Towards a theoretical synthesis explaining the politics of gender in the Middle East
Secularism as hegemonic morality: Religion in ideological struggles in the making of modern Turkey
