Özlem Altan-Olcay

Özlem Altan-Olcay is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations and the associate director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She is also an editor of Gender, Place and Culture as well as an assistant editor of Citizenship Studies. She has a PhD degree from New York University, Department of Politics. Her primary research interests include citizenship studies and gender and development. Some of her recent articles have appeared in a.o. Development and Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Feminist Economics, Gender, Place and Culture, Globalizations, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Sociology, Social Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum. She has recently co-authored (with E. Balta) The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism, published by University of Pennsylvania Press (2020).