I am currently pursuing my PhD in the Department of Geography at the Institute of Social Sciences, Ankara University, while also working as a research assistant in the same university's Department of Geography. I completed my undergraduate studies in Geography at Ondokuz Mayıs University between 2009 and 2013, and earned my master’s degree at Ankara University between 2016 and 2019. My master’s thesis was titled “Circular Labor Mobility from Georgia to Turkey: Processes, Patterns, and Outcomes.” I am currently working on my doctoral dissertation titled “The Production of Otherness from a Bourdieusian Perspective.” Through this research, I analyze how exclusionary practices are produced at the intersection of class, cultural capital, and space, and how these processes intertwine with everyday life at the neighborhood scale.

My research focuses on themes such as migration, othering, gender, labor, everyday life, class differentiation, and spatial justice. I am particularly interested in the ethnicization of labor, class-based spatial segregation, and the political nature of urban daily life. I combine qualitative methods with a critical geography perspective, aiming to engage with the concepts of neighborhood, labor, and otherness in a theoretically grounded way.

Between 2024 and 2025, I spent a year as a visiting researcher at Utrecht University’s Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning in the Netherlands. During this time, I conducted a TÜBİTAK-funded research project comparing exclusionary discourses and practices targeting refugees in Turkey and the Netherlands. This experience allowed me to gain deeper insight into the transnational dimensions of othering and its manifestations in different contexts.