Aslı Çarkoğlu is an associate professor at Kadir Has University Department of Psychology since 2013. She has a BA in Psychology from Bogazici University, Istanbul (1993). She received her MS (1995) and her PhD (2003) in Family Studies from Purdue University, Human Development and Family Studies program. Dr Carkoglu teaches close relationship dynamics, family systems, human development and health psychology. She works in the areas of relational and gender dynamics in health and wellbeing, and tobacco control.
Defne Karaosmanoğlu obtained her B.S. in Sociology from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University (USA) and Ph.D. in Communication Studies from McGill University (Canada). She teaches courses on food and politics, nation branding, public diplomacy, and media analysis in the Faculty of Communication. Her research interests include cultural studies of food, gender and technology, political communication, discourse and everyday life studies. She has published articles in journals such as International Journal of Cultural Studies, Food, Culture and Society, Space and Culture, Journal of Intercultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, and International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Ebru Bilget Güven is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Her research interests include cancer biology, the analysis of small molecule anti-cancer agents, and cell death mechanisms. Following a B.Sc. in Chemistry at Boğaziçi University, she received her M.Sc. in Medicinal Biochemistry from the Institution of Health Sciences at Çukurova University, and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics at Bilkent University. She continued her studies as a post-doctoral fellow at Ankara University, in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, where she researched the synthesis of various purine analogues. As an outcome of her doctoral thesis, “Identification of Putative Protein Kinase Inhibitors Acting on Liver Cancer Cells”, her article, “Synthesis of Novel 6-(4-Substituted piperazine-1-yl)-9-(β-D- ribofuranosyl) purine Derivatives, Which Lead to Senescence-Induced Cell Death in Liver Cancer Cells,” was published in J Med Chem in 2012, and was awarded first place in the pharmaceutical company Sanovel’s research award. Dr. Bilget Güven’s current research is on the signaling-pathway abnormalities in cancer cells and exploiting these in anticancer drug design.
Assoc. Prof. İrem İnceoğlu has an undergraduate degree from the METU Department of Political Science and Public Administration and a Master's degree from the METU Gender and Women's Studies Programme. Following graduation, Dr. İnceoğlu worked at the UNDP for the Enhancing Women's Participation in Development National Program Project between 2001 and 2003. She then went to the UK for her PhD from the University of Surrey, Media and Cultural Studies program. Her thesis focused on the uses of communication technologies in global activism. She worked as a lecturer at Middlesex University in London between 2007 and 2012. She has been working as a faculty member at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Communication, since 2012, where she teaches courses in gender studies, culture and politics, and political communication. She is the Head of the Department of Public Relations and Information as of July 2022 and the coordinator of the Gender and Women's Studies PhD program as of February 2024. Her research areas include feminism(s), social movements and civil society, communication and culture, digital culture and youth. She was the Co-investigator of the "TÜSİAD Research on Gender Equality in Television Series," which was conducted in 2018, and the Primary Investigator of the TÜBİTAK 1001 project," An Analysis of New Media and Cultural Practices of Youth in Turkey," which was completed at the end of 2021. She also was part of the research teams as a researcher in the TÜBİTAK 3501 project titled "Examining the Practices of Partner Selection through Location-Based Mobile Applications among Turkish Youth" and "TV Series-Comparative Perspective-From Geopolitics to Geocriticism: Serbia and Turkey" TÜBİTAK 2559 project, and as a consultant in the "Women on Screen and Behind the Camera: A Contemporary Outlook (2017-2021) to Representation and Labour of Women in Film and TV Industries in Turkey" the TÜBİTAK 3501 project which were completed at the end of 2023. Her current research titled "Who Is the Audience of Digital Platform Productions in Turkey, What Do They Watch, How Do They Watch?" will be funded by TÜBİTAK 3005 by 2024.
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Olgun Akbulut is a human rights and constitutional scholar. His research interests address human rights, minority rights and comparative constitutional law. He was a post-doc visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and a doctoral researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Lund/Sweden). Dr. Akbulut has published in human rights and constitutional law in various academic journals both in Turkey and abroad. In addition to his numerous articles, his four books, titled "Legal Basis for Living Together in Peace" (2008), "Religious Pluralism from Constitutional Perspectives" (2016), "Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East: From Theory to Practice" (Brill 2019), and “Historical Developments of Minority Rights” (2021).
Özlem Hemiş is a faculty member at Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design, Theater Department, and the coordinator of the MA Program/Film and Drama. She received her MA in Performing Arts from Dokuz Eylül University after studying "Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy" at Istanbul University. In 2012, she obtained her PhD from Istanbul University. In 2020, her PhD thesis was published as Gözün Menzili: İslami Coğrafyada Bakışın Serüveni (The Range of the Eye: The Journey of the Gaze in Islamic Geography). She co-wrote the 20: 1989’dan Bugüne Istanbul Tiyatro Festivali (20: Istanbul Theater Festival since 1989) and has contributed articles to journals and books. Recently, she co-authored an article with Zeynep Günsür Yüceil in Dance Chronicle, titled "Memory Transgressed by Female Bodies: Civil Historiography Contrasted with Official Historiography". She is a researcher at the Swedish Institute-funded project “Artistic Freedom and Children’s and Youth’s Perspective in the Arts in Turkey” and the project coordinator of the TUBITAK 1001 project “A Social Consensus Between Carnival and Ceremony: Local, Contemporary, and Modern Roles of Traditional Village Theatrical Performances in the Republic Day Celebrations." "The Portraits of the Anxious Men: Fragile, Handle with Care!" is the project on which she is currently working. She continues her work in the performing arts as an independent dramaturg.
Zeynep Kutluata received her undergraduate degree from Boğaziçi University, Department of Political Science and International Relations. She has two master's degrees from Boğaziçi University Atatürk Principles and Revolution History Institute and Sabancı University History Department. She received her doctorate from Sabancı University, Department of History. The historical processes of gender history and women's movements continue in the relations between the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and Türkiye. The research focuses on the gender history of social fields, the history of feminisms, gendered citizenship practices, militarism and legal history. She is currently carrying out a TÜBİTAK (3501) ARDEB project titled 'Widows and the Concept of Widowhood in Ottoman Modernization'.