I am a professor in the anthropology department of Yeditepe University. I hold my PhD and MA in Sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and completed my undergraduate studies in Political Sciences and Public Administration at Istanbul University. I have taught Anthropology, Sociology, and Urban Studies for the past seven years at various Turkish universities. In 2019, I conducted library research at the University of St Andrews in the UK, studying the accounts of Western travelers who visited the Ottoman Empire and archival research on Ottoman documents in the Cyril and Methodius National Library in Bulgaria. From October 2023 to March 2024, I studied a research project titled "The Late Ottoman Informal Settlements as a Form of Grassroots Modernization" at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, as a Fulbright fellow.