An image from the first day of my Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East class, where students created a board with all the words/images that come to their mind when they hear the phrases “gender and sexuality” and “the Middle East.”

An image from the first day of my Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East class, where students created a board with all the words/images that come to their mind when they hear the phrases “gender and sexuality” and “the Middle East.”

My teaching is grounded in transnational, feminist, decolonizing pedagogies that strive towards a collective learning process that challenges and transforms power relations both in and outside the classroom. I am committed to multimodal, collaborative, and social justice-oriented approaches to knowledge production. I have worked with diverse student bodies at Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), University of Toronto (Toronto, ON), and University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) and taught a wide range of subjects across anthropology, feminist, gender and sexuality studies, migration studies, and Middle East Studies. Sample syllabi are available upon request. 

An image of the Queer (Im)Mobilities Journal, designed as a semester-long project by the participants of Queer (Im)Mobilities advanced undergraduate seminar at theUniversity of Toronto. Participants shared journal entries about migration, mobility, and sexuality in line with our class concepts and assigned readings and commented on others’ entries throughout the semester.

CURRENT COURSES

Winter 2023 (UBC)

- Anth 213 | Sex, Gender, Culture

- Anth506A | Graduate Seminar, Professional Development

Fall 2022 (UBC)

- Anth 312 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality

- Anth506A | Graduate Seminar, Professional Development

PAST COURSES

- Queer (Im)Mobilities: Normalization, Resistance, Emergence

(Advanced Seminar in Queer Theory, University of Toronto, Spring 2022 )

- Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East

(First-Year Writing Seminar, Cornell University, Fall 2019)