2012-present  

Post doctoral Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

2011   

Dr. Phil, Freie Universität, Berlin, Arbeitsstelle Politik des Vorderen Orients, (magna cum laude)

2007   

MRes, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Social Anthropology

2006   

M.A, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Anthropology and Cultural Politics

2004   

B.A, Koç University, Istanbul, Sociology

2015

SPIRE Visiting Researcher Grant for a short-term stay at the University of Bergen in spring 2016 (application submitted)

2011

Elsa-Neumann Prize

(forthcoming in 2016)

Activism Against the Military Service in Turkey (manuscript submission deadline is December 2015, contracted to appear from the Amsterdam University Press)

(forthcoming in September 2015)

Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikaları (An edited volume in Turkish on the politics of water and energy in Turkey, submitted to the İletişim Press) (with Cemil Aksu and Sinan Erensü)

2014

“The Rise and Decline of An Anti-Dam Campaign: Yusufeli Dam Project and the Temporal Politics of Development.” Water History 6(4): 405-419.

2013

“On the Joy and Melancholy of Politics.”, in Yael Navaro-Yashin and Umut Yıldırım (eds.) An Impromptu Uprising: Ethnographic Reflections on the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots

(A slightly revised version in Turkish is forthcoming in an edited volume from the Tekin Press)

(forthcoming in 2015)   

Introduction.”, in Cemil Aksu, Sinan Erensü, Erdem Evren (eds.) Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikaları, İletişim. (with Cemil Aksu and Sinan Erensü)

(forthcoming in 2015)   

“Bir Baraj Karşıtı Mücadelenin Yükselişi ve Düşüşü: Yusufeli Barajı Projesi ve Hidro-Kalkınmanın Zaman-Mekan Siyaseti.”,  in Cemil Aksu, Sinan Erensü, Erdem Evren (eds.) Sudan Sebepler: Türkiye’de Su ve Enerji Politikaları, İletişim [A slightly revised version of “The Rise and Decline of An Anti-Dam Campaign”]

2012

“The Ones Who Walk Away: Law, Sacrifice and Conscientious Objection in Turkey.”, in Özlem Biner, Julia Eckert et. al. (eds.) Law Against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations, Cambridge University Press.

2015 

Review of The Making of A Protest Movement in Turkey:  #occupygezi by Umut Özkırımlı (ed.), Middle East- Topics & Arguments 4: 148-149,
[http://meta-journal.net/article/view/3576]

2013  

Review of The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in Post-War Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin, American Ethnologist 40(2): 400-401.

October 2014-March 2015

“Anthropology and Social Theory”, M.A course taught at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität.

October 2009-March 2010 and October 2011-March 2012

“State, Gender and Sexuality in Turkey”, B.A course taught at the Arbeitstelle Politik des Vorderen Orients, Freie Universität.

2015 

“Yok Oluşumuzu Beklerken: Çoruh Vadisi’nin Hidro-Enerji ile İmtihanı”, presented at the Bekle(t)mek: Zamansallık, İktidar ve Öznellik Üzerine conference in Istanbul, June 11-12.

2015 

“Tenses of Violence: Belonging, Displacement and Commodification Along the Çoruh Valley, Turkey”, presented at the Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space conference in Istanbul, March 22-24.

2014

“Our Coming Annihilation: Enduring Dams Along the Çoruh River, Turkey”, presented at the Anthropology Colloquium of the University of Bern, November 25.

2014

“Intimacies of Ruination and Accumulation Along the Çoruh River, Turkey”, presented at the EASA Conference, Tallinn, August 2.

2013

“Conservative Commons, Capitalist Aspirations: Enduring Hydro-Development Along the Çoruh River, Turkey”, presented at the Dispossession and Collective Action: Neoliberal (Re-)Structurings of the Rural in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, October 25-26.

2012

“Renewals: Making and Unmaking of Violent Subjectivities”, presented at the Subjektbegriffe der Europaeischen Ethnologie, Georg-August Universitaet, Göttingen, December 14.

2012

“Fluid Destinies: Politics of Water in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey”, presented at the EASA Conference, Paris, July 12.

2012

“Along and Against the Stream: Techno-Capitalist Development and the Politics of Water on the Çoruh River, Turkey”, presented at the Big Dams: Investigating Their Temporal and Spatial Politics in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, June 1.

2011               

“The 'Rotten' Conscript: Performativity, Medicalization and Gay Men in Turkey”, presented at the Lova Network International Conference on Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict, Amsterdam, July, 6-8.

2010              

“’This Mess We’re (All) In: Reflections on the Military Service in  
Turkey”, presented at the ’18. Sitzung des Arbeitskreises 
Gewaltordnungen in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW)’, Berlin, October 8.

2010              

“’I Fought the Law and…’: Conscientious Objection, Legality and
Political Subjectivity in Turkey”, presented at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, April 14-16.

(in progress)

Commoning Water: Emancipatory and Conservative Politics of Commons (with Özge Yaka (Freie Universität))

2013 

Dispossession and Collective Action: Neoliberal (Re-)Structurings of the Rural in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, October 25-26. (with Yasmine Berriane (ZMO) and Sarah Ruth Sippel (Leipzig Universität))