Full-time Faculty

Şeyma Ayyıldız
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
University of Essex
Office:
PSB 204
e-mail:
seyma.ayyildiz@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7063
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Areas of Interest

Sociology of Migration

Sociology of Everyday Life

Sociology of Space                  

Urban Sociology

Sociology of Youth

Qualitative Research

Ceylan Engin
Assist. Prof.
Head of the Sociometry Division
Ph.D.:
Texas A&M University
Office:
PSB 201
e-mail:
ceylan.engin@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 6493
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Areas of Interest

Demography

Fertility and Family

Gender and Sexuality

Health and antivaccination

Survey Research

Sinan Erensü
Sinan Erensü
Assist. Prof.
Vice Chair
Ph.D.:
University of Minnesota
Office:
PSB 208
e-mail:
sinan.erensu@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7319
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Areas of Interest

Political Ecology/Economy

Environmental Sociology / Environmental Justice

Urban Studies

Water and Energy Infrastructures

Climate Change

Social Movements

Saygun Gökarıksel
Saygun Gökarıksel
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
The City University of New York
Office:
PSB 205
e-mail:
saygun.gokariksel@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 4833
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Areas of Interest

Law

Political and historical anthropology

Transitional justice and human rights

Eastern Europe and Global South

Biray Kolluoğlu
Professor
Chair
Head of the General Sociology Division
Ph.D.:
Binghamton University
Office:
PSB 207
e-mail:
biray@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7056
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Areas of Interest

Historical sociology

Nationalism

Social memory and space

Bülent KÜÇÜK
Bülent KÜÇÜK
Assoc. Prof.
Graduate Program Advisor
Head of the Applied Sociology Division
Ph.D.:
Humboldt University
Office:
PSB 208
e-mail:
bulent.kucuk@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7320
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Areas of Interest

Social and political theory

Migration

Political sociology

Critical race theory

Citizenship

Merve Kütük Kuriş
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Office:
PSB 202
e-mail:
merve.kkutuk@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 (0) 212 359 73 15
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Areas of Interest

Political Theory

Social Theory

Gender

Sociology of Islam

Islam and Secularism

Middle Eastern Studies 

Political Ethnography

Social Movements

Tuna Kuyucu
Assoc. Prof.
Vice Chair
Head of the Social Structure and Change Division
Ph.D.:
University of Washington
Office:
PSB 206
e-mail:
tuna.kuyucu@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 4834
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Areas of Interest

Urban sociology

Sociology of law

Economic sociology

Social theory

Nationalism and ethnic conflict

Souad Osseiran
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
Goldsmiths College, University of London,
Office:
205
e-mail:
souad.osseiran@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7316
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Areas of Interest

Migration, displacement, border politics, temporality, ethnography, qualitative research 

Ceren Özselçuk
Assoc. Prof.
Head of the Sociology of Institutions Division
Ph.D.:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Office:
PSB 209
e-mail:
ceren.ozselcuk@gmail.com
Phone:
+90 212 359 6491

Areas of Interest

Economic geography

Political economy

Psychoanalysis and ideology analysis

Political philosophy

Economic sociology

Ayşe Polat
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
University of Chicago
Office:
PSB 204
e-mail:
ayse.polat@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 6496
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Areas of Interest

Sociology and anthropology of religion

Religion and secularism

Religion and state in late Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic

Sociology of health

Social science and medicine

Qualitative research methods 

Kutluğhan Soyubol
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
CUNY Graduate Center
Office:
PSB 204
e-mail:
kutlughan.soyubol@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7314
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Areas of Interest

Science

Islam

Secularism

Modernity

Biopolitics

Gender and Sexuality

Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey

Zafer Yenal
Professor
Ph.D.:
Binghamton University
Office:
PSB 210
e-mail:
zyenal@bogazici.edu.tr
Phone:
+90 212 359 7057
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Areas of Interest

Sociology of consumption

Sociology of food

Rural sociology

Historical sociology