I am a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Fordham University starting in Fall 2026. 

My research interests include political violence, urban politics, and critical methodologies. I use ethnographic methods to explore spatialities of everyday warfare with a focus on the Kurdish politics within South West Asia and North Africa. 

I received my PhD in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, I obtained my BA and MA degrees in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Turkey. In addition, I was a Visiting Researcher as a part of the International Fox Fellowship at Yale University for 2018-2019. I was also a 2024-25 Spotlight Scholar for the American Political Science Association Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group.