Begüm Sonbahar

Research Assistant

Begüm Sonbahar is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Koç University. Her main research interests are education, parenting and migration. More specifically, she works on the neoliberal transformation of education and changing parental perceptions of education, and the problems that migrant children face in school. She earned a B.A. degree in International […]

Eleni Pothou

Research Assistant

Eleni Pothou is a Ph.D. student at Koç University in the Department of Sociology. She holds a M.A. in Media and Communication Systems from Istanbul Bilgi University (2018) and a B.A. in Greek Philology with a major in Linguistics from Athens University (2012). Her research interests revolve around the identity formation and collective memory with […]

Pınar Ensari

Research Assistant

Irena Grigoryan

Research Assistant

Ayşen Üstübici

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Sociology

Ayşen Üstübici is currently an Assistant Professor at Koç University Department of Sociology and the Department of Political Science. She is also a member of the executive board of the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc). She completed her PhD at Koç University and at the University of Amsterdam in 2015. Her book, based […]