Ozlem Goner is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her book entitled, Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim, was published by Routledge in June 2017. She has written academic and popular journal articles on themes of state violence, intersectional feminist movements, anti-colonial self-determination, and internationalist solidarity. Her research and teaching aims to bridge academic and activist fields of knowledge production. She is a steering committee member of the Emergency Committee for Rojava, a member of the Global Prison Abolitionist Collective and an organizer of the Kurdish Gender Studies Network.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. Bogazici University, Istanbul
BOOKS
- Turkish National Identity and Its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim. Routledge (Advances in Sociology Series). June 2017.
REFEREED ARTICLES
- “A Collective Memory in Production: Gender Politics of 1938 in Turkey.” Dialectical Anthropology. 43 (2) 2019. 207-231.
- “State Violence, Nature, and Primitive Accumulation: Dispossession in Dersim." Dialectical Anthropology. (co-authored with Joseph Rebello), 41 (1) 2017. 33-54
- "Histories of 1938 in Turkey: Memory, Consciousness and Identity of Outsiderness." International Review of Qualitative Research, 9 (2). 2016. 228-260
- “Transformation of the Alevi Collective Identity.” Cultural Dynamics, 17 (2) 2005. 107-134
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- "Alevi-State Relations in Turkey: Recognition and Remarginalization." In Voices of migration, Culture and Identity: Alevis in Turkey and Europe. Tozun Issa. Routledge (Advances in Sociology). 2016. 115-128
- "Recognition as a Relationship of Power and Struggle: The Governing of Kurds and Alevis in Turkey." In Citizenship, Belonging and Nation-States in the 21st Century. Nicole Stokes-DuPass and Ramona Fruja (eds.) London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. 163-194
- “Iktidarin Farkli Yuzleri ve Alevi Kimliginin Donusumu.” In Turkiye’de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek. Murat Guney (ed.) Istanbul: Varlik Yayinlari. 2009. 255-284
