Graduate Student Bios

Işıl Karacan is a second-year PhD student in Middle Eastern History and a minor field in Women’s and Gender History. She obtained her double major in LLB and Political Science. After practicing law, she began her M.A. at Boğaziçi University Atatürk Institute. She wrote a dissertation on the fragmented everyday resistance practices of ordinary people in the early republican era of Turkey. She is interested in studying the construction of global settler colonial projects and counter-anti-colonial resistance repertoires. Her research particularly aims to locate the histories and insurgencies of the Kurds within the broader colonial epistemology and transitions from empire to nation-state.