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Humanities Division
History of Consciousness Department
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
Politics Department
Literature Department
Humanities & Social Sciences Building
366
Modern Ottoman-Turkish History and Literature (nineteenth and twentieth centuries); History of the Modern Middle East; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Social and Political Thought; Historiography; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Animal Studies; Religion; Aesthetics
Instructor of Record
HISC164: Monster Theory (Summer 2025, Summer 2026, UCSC)
SOC495: Monsters of the Modern (Summer 2025, Boğaziçi)
TA Experience
HISC149: The Good Life (Spring 2025, UCSC)
POLI118: Critical Political Thought and Critical Theory (Spring 2024, UCSC)
HAVC30: Introduction to European Visual Culture (Winter 2024, Winter 2025, UCSC)
HISC80T: What is the Witch? Terror, Subjectivity, Modernity (Spring 2023, UCSC)
THEA80C: Monsters (Winter 2023, Fall 2024, UCSC)
POLI105B: Early Modern Political Thought (Fall 2022, UCSC)
2025-2026 - Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Newcombe Foundation
2026 - THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
2025 - UCHRI Graduate Student Dissertation Support, University of California
2024 - Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
2024 - Best Presentation of the Humanities Division, UCSC Graduate Symposium
2023 - THI Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
2023 - Gary Lease Fellowship, Humanities Division, UC Santa Cruz
2021-2022 - Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz
2021 - MA Thesis Award (for best thesis), Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University
Journal Articles
"A Late Style too Late for the End of the World: Things Nâzım Hikmet Didn't Know He Said," Middle Eastern Literatures 27, no. 3 (2025): 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2025.2506072
"Hüseyin Rahmi's Queer Hauntology: (Un-)Making of the Secular Nation/State/Self," Culture, Theory and Critique 65, no. 1-2 (2024): 73-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2355112
"Gazing at Monsters: Aesthetics, Politics, and the National Distribution of the Sensible," Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 16, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2024.2315657
Essays and Public Writing
"Monstrosity and Modernity," Genealogies of Modernity (2026). https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/monstrosity-and-modernity
"Foucault: Power," Critical Legal Thinking (Key Concepts) (2024). https://criticallegalthinking.com/2024/08/27/foucault-power/
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