Sedef Arat-Koç
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Toronto, Ontario
saratkoc@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 557338
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Sedef Arat-Koç is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Peasants,...
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Bio/Research
Sedef Arat-Koç is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Peasants, Hegemony and the Politics of “Normal Times”: The Cases of the Republican Peoples’ Party and the Democrat Party, Turkey. She also holds a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Arts from Bogazici Üniversitesi (Turkey).
Dr. Arat-Koç joined the Department of Politics and Public Administration in January 2006. Before coming to the university, she was an Associate Professor at the Women’s Studies Program and the Department of Sociology at Trent University.
Sedef’s research interests include immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization. Currently, she is working on “whiteness” in Turkey as a cultural, political and class identity in the context of neoliberalism and post-cold war geopolitics.
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Dr. Arat-Koç joined the Department of Politics and Public Administration in January 2006. Before coming to the university, she was an Associate Professor at the Women’s Studies Program and the Department of Sociology at Trent University.
Sedef’s research interests include immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they affect immigrant women; transnational feminism; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics of racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities under neoliberal globalization. Currently, she is working on “whiteness” in Turkey as a cultural, political and class identity in the context of neoliberalism and post-cold war geopolitics.
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