Full-time Faculty

Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office:
PSB 204

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
Phone:
+90 212 359 7063

Areas of Interest

Orientalism/Occidentalism

Critical theory

Social memory

Aesthetics and Politics

Gender

Ayfer Bartu Candan
Assoc. Prof.
Ph.D.:
University of California at Berkeley
Office:
PSB 201
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
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
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
Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
The City University of New York
Office:
PSB 205
Phone:
+90 212 359 7316

Areas of Interest

Law

Political and historical anthropology

Transitional justice and human rights

Eastern Europe and Global South

Professor
Head of the General Sociology Division
Ph.D.:
Binghamton University
Office:
PSB 207
Phone:
+90 212 359 7056

Areas of Interest

Historical sociology

Nationalism

Social memory and space

Bülent KÜÇÜK
Assoc. Prof.
Graduate Program Advisor
Head of the Applied Sociology Division
Ph.D.:
Humboldt University
Office:
PSB 208
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
Phone:
+90 212 359 4834

Areas of Interest

Urban sociology

Sociology of law

Economic sociology

Social theory

Nationalism and ethnic conflict

Assoc. Prof.
Head of the Sociology of Institutions Division
Ph.D.:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Office:
PSB 209
Phone:
+90 212 359 6491

Areas of Interest

Economic geography

Political economy

Psychoanalysis and ideology analysis

Political philosophy

Economic sociology

Assist. Prof.
Ph.D.:
CUNY Graduate Center
Office:
PSB 204
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
Phone:
+90 212 359 7057

Areas of Interest

Sociology of consumption

Sociology of food

Rural sociology

Historical sociology