Nazan Üstündağ

Nazan Üstündağ received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the sociology department at Indiana University Bloomington. Between 2005 and 2018 she worked as an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology. In 2025 she was a fellow at the Social Scientists Association Colombo, Sri Lanka. Between 2020 and 2023 she received a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation Patrimonies program. Between 2018 and 2020 she was an Academy in Exile and IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund fellow. Currently, she is affiliated with Alice Solomon Hochschule in Berlin and broadcasts in Jin TV on worldwide news on women. Üstündağ’s work concerns feminist political theory, political imaginaries, gendered subjectivities and state violence in Kurdistan. Her book with the title, Mother, Politician and Guerilla: Political Imagination in the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement, was published in 2023, by Fordham Press. She writes in different public venues and is a founding member of Women for Peace and Academics for Peace.