Dr. Esra Özyürek is an Associate Professor and Chair for Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, London School of Economics.
She received her BA in Sociology and Political Science at Bogazici University, Istanbul and her MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining the LSE she taught at the Anthropology Department of University of California, San Diego.
Özyurek a political anthropologist who seeks to understand how Islam, Christianity, secularism, and nationalism are dynamically positioned in relation to each other in Turkey and in Europe. For her research received funding from Fulbright Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Academic Exchange, Institute for Turkish Studies. She was a resident fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the recipient of Barkan Prize for best article in the field of Turkish Studies.
Her most recent book Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion and Conversion in the New Europe has been published by the Princeton University Press. Her previous book Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey has been published by Duke University Press. She also is the editor of Politics of Public Memory in Turkey published by Syracuse University Press and Unuttuklari ve Hatirladiklariyla Turkiye’nin Toplumsal Hafizasi by Iletisim Yayinevi.
Currently Esra Özyurek is collaborating with Prof. Marc Baer of International History at London School of Economics on a book project that analyzes the complex set of relationships between Muslims and the Holocaust in history and today.
She can be reached at e.g.ozyurek[at]lse.ac.uk
She received her BA in Sociology and Political Science at Bogazici University, Istanbul and her MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before joining the LSE she taught at the Anthropology Department of University of California, San Diego.
Özyurek a political anthropologist who seeks to understand how Islam, Christianity, secularism, and nationalism are dynamically positioned in relation to each other in Turkey and in Europe. For her research received funding from Fulbright Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Academic Exchange, Institute for Turkish Studies. She was a resident fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She is the recipient of Barkan Prize for best article in the field of Turkish Studies.
Her most recent book Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion and Conversion in the New Europe has been published by the Princeton University Press. Her previous book Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey has been published by Duke University Press. She also is the editor of Politics of Public Memory in Turkey published by Syracuse University Press and Unuttuklari ve Hatirladiklariyla Turkiye’nin Toplumsal Hafizasi by Iletisim Yayinevi.
Currently Esra Özyurek is collaborating with Prof. Marc Baer of International History at London School of Economics on a book project that analyzes the complex set of relationships between Muslims and the Holocaust in history and today.
She can be reached at e.g.ozyurek[at]lse.ac.uk