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Ayça Alemdaroglu

 

Ayça Alemdaroglu is a lecturer in Introductory and Urban Studies Programs at Stanford University. She studied political science and sociology at the Middle East Technical and Bilkent Universities in Turkey. She completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Cambridge. Her research and teaching interests include social inequality and change, youth experiences, gender and sexuality, experiences of modernity, commercialization of education, nationalism and eugenics. Selected publications include: “The Politics of the Body in Early Republican Turkey: The Regulation of the Human Body and Eugenic Discourse,” Body & Society 11(3): 61-76, 2005; “Eugenics, Modernity, and Nationalism,” in Social Histories of Disability and Deformity, edited by David Turner and Kevin Stagg, London, New York: Routledge, 2006; and “Masculinities on the Internet” (with Neslihan Demirtas, in Turkish), Toplum ve Bilim (Society and Science), Fall 2004.

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