Academic Staff

• Political Theory
• Ethnicity and the Global Order
• Contemporary Political Ideologies
• Politics of Cultural Diversity
• International Migration
• Politics of Transnationalism

Professor Boratav’s academic research and teaching have been primarily on gender, sexuality, and values in the context of culture, social psychology, and health psychology. Her research has been published as national and international book chapters, as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender and Society, Sex Roles, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Feminism & Psychology. 

Comparative Politics: Radicalization, class analysis, comparative political institutions with a specific focus on the pro-Islamist parties; elections in the Middle East, political elite in Europe

Turkish Politics: Radicalization, Turkiah Islamist movement, elections and political parties in Turkey, constitutional engineering, coalition politics

social and political theory, historical sociology, social movements, Turkish politics, intellectual history, memory, urban politics, anthropology of compulsory military service, political sociology, gift-giving  

Post-structuralist theories of literature, film theory and criticism, theatre theory and criticism, modern English and American theatre.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy, therapist-client dyad, affect and change in psychotherapy, time perception, analytic third, mental health of university students, operationalization of psychoanalytic concepts

Syntax-phonology interface, prosody across modalities, syntax-semantics interface, fieldwork, Turkish, Karachay-Balkar, Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Whistled Turkish

• Civil Society
• Gender Studies
• European Studies
• Turkish Politics 

• Anthropology of sports with a focus on football (particularly around questions of gender, language and fairness)
• Anthropology of ethics/morality
• Anthropology of education and plagiarism 
• Urban anthropology

Positive Clinical Psychology; Bipolar disorder; Group Psychotherapies; Creativity; Autism, Early Intervention in Autism; Expressive Arts Therapy

Current research: 

• Biomedical technologies 

• AI & automation 

• Urban studies, politics of space, urban history
• Social theory
• Sociology of culture, cultural studies, sociology of everyday life
• Social movements
• Migration studies

Political Theory

Immigration

Democratic Theory

My ongoing research explores intergenerational relationships, their relationships with aging attitudes, aging anxiety, and the role of intergenerational contact in promoting prosocial behaviors toward older adults. In a second area of research, I examine coping strategies and how different coping strategies relate to psychological well-being, especially during challenging circumstances, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Here is a link to my dissertation research which focused on the role of grandparents in grandchildren's identity development: Dissertation

Here are two links to my more recent research examples that look at intergenerational relationships: Example 1 and  Example 2.

About coping and well-being, here are a couple of links to my recent research: Example 1 and Example 2.