PhD in History and Education
My research is situated at the intersection of the history of education, women’s studies, and press history, with a particular focus on the transnational circulation of pedagogical ideas and practices.
In my doctoral dissertation, Educationalisation of Womanhood, I examined the construction of womanhood and female subjectivities within the educational discourse of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey (1859–1933). I approached women’s education through multiple entry points, including girls’ secondary schooling, its relationship to “the West,” prevailing stereotypes of women, and representations of female teachers. Drawing on the framework of educationalization and gender, I analysed a diverse range of sources, including secondary school curricula, women’s magazines, educational journals, literary works, and autobiographical texts.