I completed my PhD at the Department of Geography, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Ankara University. In my doctoral dissertation titled “The Production of Otherness: An Ethnographic Study of the Neighbourhoods of Mutlu and Ayrancı (Ankara) from Bourdieu’s Habitus Perspective,” I examined the relationships between class, cultural capital, and space at the neighbourhood scale, analysing through ethnographic methods how othering practices are produced and reproduced in everyday life. My research primarily focuses on social space, class relations, habitus, cultural differentiation, and everyday urban life. I am currently employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Siirt University, where I concentrate on qualitative research that brings together social theory and human geography.

Between 2024 and 2025, I spent one year as a visiting researcher at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. During this period, within the scope of a TÜBİTAK-funded research project, I conducted a comparative analysis of othering discourses and practices directed at refugees in Türkiye and the Netherlands. This experience enabled me to gain a deeper understanding of the transnational dimensions of otherness and its diverse manifestations across different socio-spatial contexts.