Tuğçe Ellialtı-Köse

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My research interests focus on relationships between gender, law, medicine, and social inequality; understandings and practices of people interacting within domains that law governs; and the complex ways in which the law can help relieve or reinforce inequalities based on different social statuses such as gender, class, and immigration status. More specifically, my research examines socio-legal processes and management of violence against women and gender-based violence as well as the production and circulation of expert and scientific knowledges and practice that infuse these processes, and state systems in general. I also research the intersections of gender, violence, and media with a primary focus on the impact of global events and social movements on media portrayals of, and discourses on, gender-based violence. In my work, I draw from sociological, feminist, and anthropological theories and perspectives that account for processes of violence, inequalities, and injustices; employ research designs which deploy in-depth and involved qualitative methods to understand interactions and processes; and take up broad theoretical questions about feminist politics and the state, scientific expertise, governance of law, and state management of violence.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Guelph
  • 2020–2022
    Assistant Professor of Sociology (LTA), Trent University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Pennsylvania, PhD
  • 2010 
    University of Pennsylvania, MA
  • 2008 
    Sabanci University, MA
  • 2006 
    Bogazici University, BA

Publications

  • 2026
    Researching and Analyzing Media Accounts of Sexual Violence: Reflections on a Co-authoring Experience, Sage Research Methods, Datasets (upcoming)
  • 2025
    Sexual Violence in Canadian News Media: Feminist Possibilities and Challenges in the Era of #MeToo, Canadian Journal of Media Studies
  • 2025
    The State Effect in Contemporary Turkey: Tracing ‘Honour’ as a Trope of Gendered Victimhood in Cases of Sexual Assault, Journal of Gender Studies
  • 2024
    “The Damage is Permanent”: Law, Women’s “Honor,” and the Psychiatrization of Sexual Violence in Post-reform Turkey, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society
  • 2022
    Vulnerability in the Age of Precarity, The Open Learning Digital Fluency Fellowship #ONHumanLearn Project
  • 2018
    The State, Law, and Feminist Struggles in the Neoliberalizing City: The İstanbul Courthouse as a Contested Space, Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey: Environmental, Urban and Secular Politics

Professional Memberships

  • Canadian Sociological Association
  • Law and Society Association
  • American Sociological Association

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