Tuncay Babali Former Embassy of the Republic of Turkey Mr. Tuncay BABALI graduated from International Relations Department of Marmara University, Istanbul, in 1994. He obtained his MA degree at SOAS (Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Caucasus 1991-1995), London in 1995 and joined the MFA service of Turkey that year. Between 1998-2003, he worked [...]
Dr Gulfem Cakir Researcher, University of Kent Gulfem Cakir received her BSc (Hons) and MSc in Psychological Counselling and Guidance from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. She worked for the Ministry of Education (MONE) from 1999 to 2002, in Turkey. After MONE, she worked as a researcher at METU in several [...]
Dr Tunc Aybak Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University Dr. Tunc Aybak is currently a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, in the Politics and International Relations Department. He lectures on the European Union, globalization, international economy policies and geopolitics of the black sea region. His latest book is entitled Politics of the Black Sea: Dynamics [...]
Alev Adil Lecturer, University of Greenwich Alev Adil lectures at the University of Greenwich where she is head of the department of Creative, Critical and Communication Studies. She is a writer, reviewer and translator whose poetry, fiction and academic writing engages with the mythic, post-colonial identities and the interstices of private and political memory. [...]
Dr Mehmet Ali DikerdemSenior Lecturer, Middlesex University Dr. Mehmet Ali Dikerdem has been involved with Middlesex University for many years, teaching a wide range of courses on Third World development, social, urban and ethnic policy studies in social sciences and humanities, and was appointed 0.5 Lecturer in 1990 in social policy and ethnic studies, and was a [...]
Kerem Öktem Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford Kerem Oktem is Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College and teaches the Politics of the Middle East at the Oriental Institute. He read Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, where he also completed his D. Phil. thesis at the [...]
Arthur Mitski PhD in Social Anthropology, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) My thesis develops analytical tools to explore the interaction of the social and the psychological that defines our decisions, actions and life-courses. Critically approaching both modernist and post-modernist epistemes, it suggests humanistic ways towards the synthesis stage in social [...]
Gabriela Pina Ahumada London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) PhD in Social Anthropology, LSE; (Completion anticipated 2017)MSc in Social Anthropology, LSE; 2013 (Dissertation: “Family Matters. Kinshiptheory and the evolutionary origins of human sociability”) BA (Licenciate) in Philosophy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; 2010BA (Licenciate) in Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; [...]
Dr Esat Alpay Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey Esat Alpay is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Process Engineering. He received his BSc (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Surrey, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He also holds an MA degree in [...]
Dr Zerrin Ozlem Biner Anthropology, University of Cambridge Dr Biner studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at Koc University in Istanbul and at the Universities of London and Cambridge before obtaining her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Biner's current research project is entitled "Imagined Cosmopolites of Mardin: An Ethnographic [...]
