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Asst. Prof. Merve Reyhan Baygeldi Ceylan from the Department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University has published her latest article in the journal of İmgelem (TR Dizin).

Our Department's visiting scholar Prof. Mücahit Bilici’s new article “İsmet Özel: Bir Dava Adamının Aktif Nihilizmi (İsmet Özel: The Active Nihilism of a Man of Cause)” has been published in Tezkire Journal.

Our Sociology PhD candidate, Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy, has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and earned his doctorate.

We are pleased to announce that Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, has published an article titled “The Decolonial Mind of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o” in Current Affairs.

Senior Students of Sociology Undergraduate Program Present Their Current Work to Faculty Members in the Graduation Thesis Course

Our visiting researcher, Dr. Dalal Bajes, examines the role and influence of female students in the Palestinian Student Movement in her study titled “From Presence to Power: Female Agency in the Palestinian Student Movement” published in the Journal of Ortadoğu Etütleri.

Zulkarnain Mohammed, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, has published a new article titled "Conceptualizing the Differences in the Perception and Internalization of Racism Between Black African Immigrants and African Americans in the United States" in the Genealogy Journal.

As part of the Brown Bag Seminars organized by the Department of Sociology at our University, Dr. Havva Yılmaz, who continues her research as a postdoctoral fellow in the department, presented her recent study.

As part of the Brown Bag Seminars organized by our Department of Sociology, cultural anthropologist Dr. Yasemin Özer, who continues her work as a postdoctoral researcher in the department, presented her research.

Our university’s Sociology PhD candidate, Ayesha Syed, presented a paper at the Cambridge Dialogues Colloquium 2025 and appeared as a guest on Islam Channel UK.

An article by Assist. Prof. İbrahim Emre Yanık, a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at our University, titled “Community as Sanctuary: Reentry Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Muslims”, has been published in a Q2-ranked international journal.

The Department’s Brown Bag Seminars series featured a presentation of significant research by Dr. İbrahim Emre Yanık, based on his doctoral dissertation. Dr. İbrahim Emre Yanık shared the striking findings of his work titled "Stranded in Transit: Migrants' Borderland Experiences En Route to Europe."

The master’s thesis of Büşra Demirden, one of the graduates of our University’s Sociology Master’s Program, titled "Religion, Memory and Sense of Belonging: The Tradition of Memorization of the Qur’an in Türkiye (1923–1950)" has been published as a book.

Dr. Dalal Bajes, a visiting researcher in our University’s Department of Sociology, delivered a presentation at the online international conference titled “Resilient Communities, Resilient Archives.”

Our university’s Sociology PhD student Sıla Türköne won first place in the 16th Dicle Koğacıoğlu Article Competition with her paper titled “Exposure and the Manosphere in Türkiye: The Politics of Gender-Based Violence in the Digital Sphere.”

The article titled “Understanding Society Through Emotions: A General Introduction to the Anthropology of Emotion”, co-authored by Prof. Ramazan Aras and Research Assistant Yunus Yeşil from our university’s Department of Sociology, has been published in the book “Studies from Theory to Fieldwork in the 100th Year of Anthropology.”

Members of our university’s Department of Sociology attended the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2025 Annual Meeting—one of the world’s leading anthropology gatherings—and presented their research.

The book “Religion as Critique” by Prof. Irfan Ahmad, a faculty member of the Department of Sociology at our university, has been translated into Arabic.

The article titled “Architects’ Habitus in the Transition from Education to Profession”, authored by our university’s Department of Sociology master’s student Hilal Aktaş as the corresponding author, has been published in Idealkent Journal of Urban Studies.

Ayesha Syed, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at our university, participated in the NISIS Autumn School 2025 program organized by the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) with her study titled “Gender Relations in Premodern and Modern Muslim Contexts.”

The article titled “Liquid Spatiotemporality: From Nomadic to Sedentary to Nomadic” by our university’s Sociology PhD student Bilal M. Salaam has been published in The Migration Conference 2025 Selected Papers.

Prof. Sari Hanafi, Prof. Ramazan Aras, Prof. Mücahit Bilici, Dr. Heba Ezzat and Assoc. Prof. Önder Küçükkural discuss the promises and limits of liberalism, the concept of symbolic liberalism, and the approach of dialogical sociology at the panel.

Visiting Researcher Dr. Dalal Bajes from our University's Department of Sociology presented a paper at the 6th Annual Black Feminist and Womanist Theory Workshop held in the USA.

A book chapter authored by Prof. Ramazan Aras, and Assist. Prof. İbrahim Emre Yanık from our faculty members at Departmenr of Sociology has been published in the Routledge Handbook of European Borderlands, released by Routledge.