Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Gender History; Gender Politics; Anti-Gender Movement; Right-Wing Populism and Gender; Qualitative Research Methodologies; Historical Research Methods; Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
Biography
Beren Azizi is a PhD student in Gender Studies at UCLA. Her research investigates how LGBTQ+ issues are articulated and contested in Turkish politics within the wider framework of global anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ+ movements, focusing on the discourses and practices of politicians and activists and their implications for political life in Turkey.
She holds a BA in History from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2020), and an MA in Comparative History from Central European University, Vienna (2022). Her master’s thesis examined the dismissal of 19th-century policemen for marrying women labeled as “unchaste,” engaging with questions of honor, masculinities, and institutional violence in a late imperial context. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies at UCLA, she spent one year as a doctoral student in the Political Science PhD program at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Vienna.
Education
Central European University, Vienna – M.A. in History, 2022
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul – B.A. in History, 2020
Kadir Has University, Istanbul – B.A. in Radio, Television, and Cinema, 2013
