Simten Coşar

Simten Coşar is a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, Global Studies Center. As a feminist political scientist she has published in English and Turkish on Turkish politics, feminist politics, and political thought. In the English-speaking and reading world, she is the co-editor of Universities in the Neoliberal Era: Academic Cultures and Critical Perspectives (UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) (with Hakan Ergül), and Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey (Canada: Red Quill Books, 2012) (with Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir). She has been conducting research on feminist encounters in the neoliberal academia. Most recently she translated the pioneering work in Turkish (by Handan Çağlayan) on Kurdish women’s movement to English (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). She is a Peace Academic, a member of Women’s Coalition (in Turkey), Feminist and Queer Researchers Network (FQA), and Bir-Ara-Da.