Biography
(they/them)
Research Interests
urban sociology, visual sociology, queer and post-genocidal geographies, haunting and ghosts, unearthing spectrality, belonging and friendship, embodiment and affect, encounters with memory, everyday violence, time and temporality, politics of witnessing, writing and doing experimental ethnography, positionality
Education
MA in Cultural Studies - Sabancı University, Istanbul, 24'
BSc in International Relations - Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 21'
Courses Taught
TA - Social Movements (SOC 470)
Additional Campus Affiliations
The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
Recent Publications
gürbüz, deniz atakan. 2026. “queer hauntography of girl joy and all the messy places.” In “Anthropology that Breaks your Heart: The Risk of Proximity,” edited by Alexandra Dantzer, Uyen Dang, and Emma Khan. American Ethnologist website, 27 March.
gürbüz, deniz atakan. “Hayaletin Çarkı.” Edited by Aslı Zengin. KaosQueer+ Studies 12 (December 2023): 94–103. (in Turkish)