B.A. (Istanbul Technical University), M.A. (Bogazici University), Ph.D. (Duke University)
Research interests: Political and economic anthropology, feminist political economy, human rights, critical welfare studies, science and technology studies, computational social sciences
Region of focus: Turkey, Kurdistan, Europe and the Middle East
Publications:
Refereed Articles
2021 “Random Sampling in Corpus Design: Cross-Context Generalizability in Automated Cross-national Protest Event Collection,” in American Behavioral Scientist. June 2021, 66:5, 578-602 (https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211021630) (co-authored with Erdem Yörük et.al.)
2021 “Contentious Welfare: The Kurdish conflict and social policy as counterinsurgency in Turkey,” Governance. April 2021, 34:2, 353-371 (https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12500) (co-authored with Erdem Yörük)
2020 “Making the Indebted Citizen: An Inquiry into State Benevolence in Turkey,” Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). June 2020, 43:1, 153-171 (https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12347)
2009 “When the Poor Need Health Care: An Ethnography of State and Citizenship in Turkey,” Middle Eastern Studies Journal, 2009, 45:5, 769-782.
Datasets
2023 Global Contentious Politics Dataset (GLOCON). https://glocon.ku.edu.tr/ (with Erdem Yörük et.al.)
2023 Global Welfare: A Panel Dataset for Comparative Social Policy (GLOW). https://glocon.ku.edu.tr/ (with Erdem Yörük et.al.)
Edited Volume
2007 Türkiye’de ve Avrupa’da Sağlık Politikaları (Health Care Policies in Europe and Turkey). İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları (co-editors Ç. Keyder et.al – in Turkish)
Book Chapters
2019 “A task set proposal for automatic protest information collection across multiple countries” in Advances in Information Retrieval Cham, L. Azzopardi, et.al. (eds.), Springer International Publishing, (co-authored with Ali Hurriyetoglu, et.al.)
2007 “Türkiye’de Sağlık Sisteminin Dönüşümü: Bir Devlet Etnografisi” (“Transformation of Health Care System in Turkey: An Ethnography of the State”) in Ç. Keyder et.al (eds.) Türkiye’de ve Avrupa!da Sağlık Politikaları. İstanbul: İletişim, (co-authored with Nazan Üstündağ – in Turkish)
Web-based Publications
2022 “Turkey’s Incursion into Northeast Syria: Authoritarianism Within and Beyond Borders” in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online, Ethnographic Explainers Forum, January 22, 2020
2013 “Şerê Giran: Being a Kurd in the Turkish Prison” in Jadalliya, November 11
2013 “A Look at Gezi Park from Turkey’s Kurdistan” in Fieldsites – Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, October 31, 2013 (co-authored with Fırat Bozçalı)