Umut Ozkaleli, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at ADA University, where she teaches Research Methods, Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Minority Relations, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Perspectives on Human Rights and Democracy, and Sociology. She earned her master’s degree from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University and PhD from Syracuse University-Maxwell School, Social Science Department. Her publications are related to Syrian refugee experience in Turkey, developing intersectional frameworks for equity in state institutions, gendered agency in democratization, gendered war memories, racism and colorism in Cyprus, and the transborder re-making of social interactions, the everyday becoming of refugees, and their articulations of agency in the host country. Her four different field works are based in Turkey and North Cyprus. Dr. Ozkaleli’s articles appeared in academic journals such as Migration Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Ethnic & Racial Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Women’s Studies International Forum, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, and Journal of Intercultural Studies.
