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Biography

She graduated from the Department of Sociology at Kırıkkale University in 2005 and completed her master’s degree in the Department of Philosophy at Gazi University in 2010. Her master’s thesis examined the thought of Jürgen Habermas through the concepts of prejudice, action and the public sphere. In 2021 she began her doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, where she is currently continuing her PhD. Between 2006 and 2023 she worked in the private sector as a data analyst and report writer. Since 2023 she has been a lecturer at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.

Biography

She completed her master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her master’s research in history examined the South African War from the perspective of Ottoman intellectuals, while her doctoral research explored how Pan-Africanism is represented in high-school history lessons in post-apartheid South Africa and how students make sense of it. She has served as a visiting researcher and postdoctoral researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University.

She has conducted research in African studies and education. Her work focuses on Pan-Africanism, identity and belonging, decolonisation, history education, social cohesion and exclusion. She has national and international publications on migration and xenophobia in Africa, education and identity, inequalities in knowledge production and historical narratives. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University, where she continues her research.