Burçak Keskin-Kozat

Director of Finance and Operations, Department of History
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Ph.D. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
OTES Biography

Trained as a political and historical sociologist, Dr. Burçak Keskin Kozat is interested in how power inequalities within and between communities shape—and are shaped by—processes of identity formation and institution-building. Her M.A. thesis at the University of Chicago explored how Turkey’s nationalist, Islamist, and feminist activists interacted with each other through the binarism of secular modernity and religious traditionalism, and thereby failed to challenge the predominant forms of discrimination within and beyond their particular communities. Her dissertation at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor focused on the limits of power and resistance in the context of foreign assistance programs and examined the conjunctural negotiation of power disparities in the case of the Marshall Plan in Turkey. Her research on religion, nationalism, modernization, and gender has appeared in academic journals and books.

Burçak Keskin-Kozat

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