Full-time Faculty

Assist. Prof.

Ph.D.:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Office:

PSB 204

e-mail:

taylan.acar@boun.edu.tr

Areas of Interest

Social stratification and inequality

Sociology of education

Immigration and assimilation

Demography, race and ethnicity

Research methods

Work and employment

Comparative historical sociology

Meltem Ahıska

Professor

Chair

Ph.D.:

Goldsmiths College

Office:

PSB 206

e-mail:

ahiska@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7063

Areas of Interest

Orientalism/Occidentalism

Critical theory

Social memory

Aesthetics and Politics

Gender

Ayfer Bartu Candan

Ayfer Bartu Candan

Assoc. Prof.

Ph.D.:

University of California at Berkeley

Office:

PSB 201

e-mail:

ayfer.bartu@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7315

Areas of Interest

Urban studies

Anthropological theory

Political Ecology

Heritage Studies

Assist. Prof.

Vice Chair

Head of the Sociometry Division

Ph.D.:

Texas A&M University

Office:

PSB 202

e-mail:

ceylan.engin@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 6493

Areas of Interest

Demography

Fertility and Family

Gender and Sexuality

Health and antivaccination

Survey Research

Sinan Erensü

Assist. Prof.

Ph.D.:

University of Minnesota

Office:

PSB 208

e-mail:

sinan.erensu@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7319

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@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7316

Areas of Interest

Law

Political and historical anthropology

Transitional justice and human rights

Eastern Europe and Global South

Biray Kolluoğlu

Professor

Head of the General Sociology Division

Ph.D.:

Binghamton University

Office:

PSB 207

e-mail:

biray@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7056

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@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7320

Areas of Interest

Social and political theory

Migration

Political sociology

Critical race theory

Citizenship

Assoc. Prof.

Vice Chair

Head of the Social Structure and Change Division

Ph.D.:

University of Washington

Office:

PSB 203

e-mail:

tuna.kuyucu@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 4834

Areas of Interest

Urban sociology

Sociology of law

Economic sociology

Social theory

Nationalism and ethnic conflict

Ceren Özselçuk

Assoc. Prof.

Head of the Sociology of Institutions Division

Ph.D.:

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Office:

PSB 209

e-mail:

ceren.ozselcuk@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 6491

Areas of Interest

Economic geography

Political economy

Psychoanalysis and ideology analysis

Political philosophy

Economic sociology

Kutluğhan Soyubol

Assist. Prof.

Ph.D.:

CUNY Graduate Center

Office:

PSB 204

e-mail:

kutlughan.soyubol@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7314

Areas of Interest

Science

Islam

Secularism

Modernity

Biopolitics

Gender and Sexuality

Late Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey

Professor

Ph.D.:

Binghamton University

Office:

PSB 210

e-mail:

zyenal@boun.edu.tr

Phone:

+90 212 359 7057

Areas of Interest

Sociology of consumption

Sociology of food

Rural sociology

Historical sociology