Ferhan Güloğlu

Ferhan Güloğlu is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the George Washington University. She specializes in gender and feminist studies, the anthropology of Islam and religion, science and technology studies, digital ethnography, reproduction studies and the Middle East.Güloğlu’s dissertation project, “Cultivating Motherhood: the (Re)configuration of Natural Childbirth in Turkey” is an ethnographic account of the politics of childbirth. By tracing the experiences of natural birth advocates such as obstetricians and gynecologists, birth psychologists, civil society workers, state officials and birthing women, this project explores how this movement is reshaping subjectivities through situating natural birth as an ethical process that is cultivated in bodily practices, state-led pedagogies and cosmopolitan spiritual belongings. She has a BA in Political Science & International Relations at Boğaziçi University and a MA in Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Anthropological Quarterly, Medical Thought and Culture Journal, and Reçel blog.