I’m a political geographer. My research, writing, and teaching engage with questions of state power, violence, bureaucracy, and migration, drawing on feminist geography, critical geopolitics, migration studies, and Kurdish studies.

My current research explores state violence from a feminist and embodied perspective. Combining ethnographic fieldwork with theoretical and methodological reflection, I examine how violence is enacted, experienced, interpreted, and negotiated within the everyday institutional life of the Turkish security bureaucracy. Much of this work is based on long-term research in Turkish Kurdistan, where I explore the perspectives and practices of frontline agents of the Turkish security apparatus. More broadly, I am interested in developing new ways of studying the state by bringing questions of embodiment, emotion, ethics, and everyday practice into conversations about power and violence.

Alongside my research, I teach a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in human geography, political geography, and qualitative research methods. I am also involved in a number of academic communities and professional organizations. I currently co-chair the Feminist Geographies Group of the Swiss Association of Geographers (ASG) and serve on the board of the AAG Political Geography Specialty Group. I am also an active member of the Swiss Association for Turkish Studies (SFST) and the Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures (SGMOIK).

Outside academia, I enjoy collecting everyday objects and turning them into keepsakes, experimenting with artistic crafts, and reading art history as an enthusiastic amateur. I’m also a longtime fan of science fiction and fantasy, and I appreciate comedy not only as entertainment but also as a way of understanding the world. Cooking Mediterranean vegan dishes (well... with varying results!), walking in the rain, and getting pleasantly lost in unfamiliar cities are some of my favorite ways to slow down.