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Dilşa Deniz

Dilşa Deniz is a socio-cultural Kurdish anthropologist and currently a lecturer at University of California San Diego (UCSD). She was dismissed from her teaching position in Turkey in February 2016, after signing a peace petition. Her research focuses on cultural and religious practices, sacred geography, environmental attacks on the Alevi geography, ecocide, the relationship between Alevism and the environment, and myths of Alevism in Kurdish communities—particularly in the city of Dersim, an ancient urban center for Kurdish Alevism in Anatolia.

 

Deniz has worked extensively as an activist and organizer in the women’s movement in Turkey. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and has published articles, book chapters, and a monograph.  

ARTICLES BY Dilşa Deniz

  • Scholars in Context: Dilşa Deniz

    Scholars in Context: Dilşa Deniz

    My research focuses on Kurdish Alevism and Dersim, the center of Kurdish Alevism, and their connections to ethno-religious, gender, and socio-political identity constructions. It simultaneously invokes Kurdish studies and Turkey’s ethno-politics and homogenizat..