I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University in Ä°stanbul. As an anthropologist, my work combines ethnography with historical anthropology to examine mass media and inequality, secularism, the history of new media and technology, and political economy.
In my current book project, supported by a Wenner-Gren Hunt Fellowship, I examine how secularism has shaped the journalistic coverage of religious inequalities from the 1940s to the present, with a particular focus on Alevis in Turkey. I also work on a project exploring gender and class inequalities through history of new media technologies (1920-2000), funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.​
My articles have been published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Visual Anthropology Review, Media, Culture & Society, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Journalism. I also produced a podcast for Cultural Anthropology and wrote posts for TrafoBlog and Middle East Report.