Nursem Keskin Aksay received her Ph.D, titled “The Discursive Emergence of ‘Islamic Bourgeoisie’ and Middle Class Veiled Muslim Women in Istanbul,” with the highest degree from Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universitat Political and Social Sciences Department, where she has been awarded by DFG (German Research Foundation) PhD research grant for five years. She has completed her double major BA in Bog?azic?i University Sociology and Philosophy departments with Honor degree and has been awarded by Koc? University Master Degree Program, Comparative Studies in History and Society, by full scholarship. In Koc? University, she worked as teaching and research assistant for Sociology, Anthropology and History courses and completed her MA research titled “Moral Guardianism at the Intersection of the Household and the Workplace: Women Factory Workers in Denizli.” During her doctoral research, she has been giving lectures on gender, class, anthropology of Islam, anthropology of city and secularism in Freie University, Humboldt University and European University Viadrina. In 2015 and 2016, as a Research Fellow at U?sku?dar University Postcolonial Studies Research Center (PAMER), she worked for the coordination of research projects. Under her coordination the research unit has been completed the research projects “Postcolonial Traces in Everyday Life” and “The Perception of ‘Refugee’ through the Concepts of Nation-state and Citizenship in Turkey and Europe.” with published papers and exhibitions.