Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
I am interested in the ways that cultural difference is communicated within consumer spaces, how gender takes shape in the performance of service work where culture is for sale, and how social hierarchies are enacted through practices of consumption. My ethnographic work, conducted in both Istanbul and Washington, D.C., explores commercial intersections of Turkish and American culture, as well as everyday methods of social exclusion in the contemporary city. I hold an MA in Modern Turkish History from Bogazici University and an MA in Sociology from the University of Maryland, where I am currently pursuing a doctorate in Sociology.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Specialties
Space
Social Exclusion
Consumption
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Education
MA
| 2012
| Sociology
| University of Maryland
MA
| 2010
| Modern Turkish History
| Bogazici University
Abstracts
“The Quality Customers Don’t Go to Akmerkez Anymore”: A Social Topography of the Istinye Bazaar
