Nursem Keskin Aksay

Nursem Keskin Aksay graduated from Boğaziçi University Sociology and Philosophy departments with honors in 2009 and was accepted to Koç University Graduate Program, Comparative Studies in History and Society with a full scholarship. She worked as a teaching and research assistant in Sociology, Anthropology and History courses at Koç University and completed her master's thesis titled "Moral Guardianism at the Intersection of the Household and the Workplace: Women Factory Workers in Denizli" in 2012. Nursem Keskin Aksay received her doctorate with the highest degree from Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universitat Political and Social Sciences Department in December 2017 with her thesis titled “The Discursive Emergence of 'Islamic Bourgeoisie' and Middle Class Veiled Muslim Women in Istanbul”. She was awarded a doctoral research grant from the DFG (German Research Foundation) for five years. In 2015 and 2016, she worked as a Research Assistant at Üsküdar University Postcolonial Studies Research Center (PAMER) for the coordination of research projects. He completed the research projects "Postcolonial Traces in Daily Life" and "Turkey and European Countries-Citizenship Concepts" and "Refugee Perception", which she coordinated, with published articles and exhibitions. During her doctoral research, she taught courses on gender, class, anthropology of Islam, urban anthropology, and secularism at Freie University, Humboldt University, and European University Viadrina. He lectured as a lecturer in the European Ethnology program of Humboldt University in the Fall semester of 2016-2017. Nursem Keskin Aksay has been working at the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University since 2019. He serves as a assistant professor and as the Deputy Head of the Department. At the same time, she conducts research on the relationship of the experiences of "religious" Muslim women's communities with emotion and space, migration, sense of belonging, social change and youth. She teaches undergraduate, graduate and doctoral courses such as Social Theory, Social-Cultural Anthropology, Qualitative Research Methods, Gender and Ethnography of Space and Place.