Association for Social Research on the
Four Generations of Rights
OUR TEAM
Gözde Aytemur
Since 2011, she has been a faculty member at Galatasaray University, Department of Sociology. Her research interests focus on juvenile and youth criminal justice, managerial and political transformation of justice institutions and judicial professions, media-law-justice relations. In 2022, she defended her dissertation at ENS Paris-Saclay University titled "Are Prosecutors in Turkey "Broke Emperors"? An Analysis of a Professional Group Caught Between the Managerialization and Politicization of Justice", which he defended at ENS Paris-Saclay University in 2022, was awarded a research prize by the Galatasaray University Consortium, a consortium of French universities.
Julie Alev Dilmaç
She is a lecturer at Galatasaray University, Department of Sociology. Her research interests include the sociology of death as well as social representations. In this context, in 2021, she contributed to writing a report for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on hate speech against foreigners in Cyprus (Public discourses of hate speech in Cyprus : Awareness, policies and prevention). In 2020, she published a book on honor killings in France, as well as work on the risks associated with new communication technologies, especially cyber harassment cases affecting young people and women.
Seçil Doğuç Ergin
Seçil Doğuç Ergin is a faculty member at Galatasaray University, Department of Sociology. Her research interests include sociology of incarceration, sociology of crime and deviant behavior, and discrimination. In 2020, the book she co-authored with İpek Merçil titled "What Do Four Walls Do to a Woman?" was awarded the 45th Sedat Simavi Commendable Work Award by the Journalists Association of Turkey.
Senem Örnek Özatalay
After her bachelor's degree in art history at Mimar Sinan University, she completed her master's degree in art and language theories at EHESS. Between 2005-2016, she worked as a media director, editor and public relations coordinator in the media sector. Between 2014-2017, she participated as an expert art historian in the research titled "The Formation and Structure of the Contemporary Art Market in İstanbul" within the scope of Galatasaray University Scientific Research Projects.
Zeynep Savaşçın
Zeynep Savaşçın, who teaches political philosophy, philosophy of law and ethics at the Department of Philosophy at Galatasaray University, received her PhD degree from ÉHESS -Paris in 2017 with a dissertation titled "De la publicité kantienne à l'éthicité hégélienne: Raison et vie des normes" ("From Kantian Publicity to Hegelian Ethical Life, the Wisdom and Life of Norms"). She has published and researched on Rousseau, Axel Honneth, Şeyla Benhabib, Hartmut Rosa and her PhD teacher Marcel Gauchet. Her book Democracy in Search of the Citizen, a collection of Gauchet's works, was published in 2012.
Cem Özatalay
Cem Özatalay serves as a faculty member in the sociology department at Galatasaray University, where he focuses his research on topics including social inequalities, discrimination, social rights, and neoliberalism. Since September 2023, he has been leading a project titled "SOCRETUR - Social Rights as Instruments of Europeanization from below - Crossed Perspective on Europe and Turkey," which is supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module.