Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014-2020 Ph.D. Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University (Magna cum Laude)
2008-2010 MA Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University (with high honors)
2004-2008 BA Sociology, Middle East Technical University (with honors)
Academic Positions
2024- Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
Department ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’
2021 Winter-
2022 Summer Adjunct Lecturer, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale).
2014-2018 Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the European Research Council Project
“Realising Eurasia: Civilisation and Moral Economy in the 21st Century”
2013-2014 Researcher and Coordinator, Koç University Social Policy Center, Turkey.
2012 Winter Project Assistant, Women’s Studies Center in Science, Technology and Engineering,
İstanbul Technical University, Turkey
2011-2012 Research Assistant, Sociology Department, Bartın University, Turkey
Teaching
April-May 2023 5-week elective BA course “100 Years of the Turkish Republic:
Social Change, Political Struggles and Hope” at Duale Hoch Schule in Gera-Eisenach.
March 2023 Lectures in scope of Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching at the Social Anthropology Institute at
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania: “The Scope and Implications of Istanbul Convention
as a Political Instrument for Women’s Platform Organizations in Germany and Turkey.”
Political Anthropology Seminar, “Rights-based Advocacy and Project Implementation for
Refugee and Migrant Women.” Applied Anthropology Seminar.
2021 Winter –
2022 Summer “Economic Anthropology,” BA course, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale).
Professional Experience
2022-2023 Project Officer in Sachsen-Anhalt for Project “Gemeinsam MUTig” at DaMigra e.V., Halle (Saale).
2021 Summer Lead Auditor for Fair Labor Association in the Project “Focused Assessment of the Project
‘In a Nutshell’” on the prevention of child labour in hazelnut harvesting in East Marmara and West
Black Sea region/Turkey.