Lecturer Şule Çınar Yağcı completed the French Teaching undergraduate program at Istanbul University in 2014. She earned her master’s degree with a thesis in the Department of French Education at the Istanbul University Institute of Educational Sciences in 2018 and is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Gazi University Institute of Educational Sciences.

Since 2021, she has been serving as a lecturer at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University's School of Foreign Languages. Adopting innovative approaches in teaching French, Şule Çınar Yağcı focuses her studies on AI-supported language teaching, digital storytelling design, and the integration of educational technologies into foreign language education.

Her academic publications include book chapters and articles on AI-supported French education, digital storytelling design, and the flipped classroom model. She has presented papers on the use of artificial intelligence in foreign language teaching at international conferences and symposiums.

During the fall and spring semesters, Şule Çınar Yağcı teaches French courses at the Faculty of Tourism. She also contributes to the preparation of IAESTE exam materials and serves in the French sections of these exams.

Hatice Uğur graduated from Boğaziçi University, Department of History in 2000. In 2003, she completed her master’s degree in history at Boğaziçi University with a thesis titled “Understanding Afrika-yi Osmani in the Late Ottoman Period: The Case of Zanzibar”, which was published as “A Sultanate in Ottoman Africa: Zanzibar” (Kure Publications, 2005). She completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of African Studies, Department of History, Leipzig University with her thesis titled “East Africa's Entangled Worlds in Ottoman Sources, 1879-1915”. Uğur has published several studies on Ottoman Africa and the interactions between the Ottomans, East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean regions in the 19th century. She is currently a faculty member at Marmara University, Institute of Middle East and Islamic Countries. She will also be a visiting researcher at the Department of African Studies at Humboldt University, during 2024-2025, where she will study the Afro-Ottoman legacy in late Ottoman and early Republican societies and examine Africans in the post-imperial Ottoman Empire within the broader concept of global African diaspora.