Ayşe Polat
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
SOC 368 Understanding Health and Healing, SOC 490 Directed Research and Readings
TUBITAK 1002 Project, “The Experience of Contact Tracing Teams in Istanbul During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Phenomenological Study.” (completed)
TUBITAK 1001 Project, “A Grounded Theory Situational Analysis Examining the Relationship Between the Traditional-Complementary and Modern Medicine in Turkey”
With Demircioğlu, Z. and Küçükali, H. “Are we heroes or couriers? A phenomenological study on reappropriation of professional subjectivity and agency among medical professionals during covid-19 contact tracing in Türkiye,” Social Science and Medicine, 2024 forthcoming.
Nitel Araştırmalarda Yarı-Yapılandırılmış Görüşme Soruları: Soru Form ve Türleri, Nitelikler ve Sıralama, Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 22, 161–182, 2022.
The Late Ottoman Novel as Social Laboratory: Celal Nuri and the “Woman Question,” Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity: Reform and Translation in the Tanzimat Novel. Monica M. Ringer and Etienne Charrière (eds). New York: I.B. Tauris, 2020.
The Ottoman Religious and Moral Censorship of the Armistice Istanbul Press, Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-1918. Mehmet Beşikçi, Akşin S. Somel, A. Toumarkine (eds.). Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2020.
