SHORT CV

D. Burcu Eğilmez earned her bachelor, master and PhD degrees from the Middle East Technical University, department of Political Science and Public Administration.

She received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct part of her doctoral research at Northwestern University, and she also spent a semester at the University of Leiden as an Erasmus exchange student. Her doctoral thesis is concerned with the history of relations between the Ottoman state and its religious Others (Christians, Jews, heterodox Sufi orders, and Alevis), as well as the implications of such a history for the principles of toleration/intolerance and justice. Her thesis was published by İletişim Publishing House on 2017 with the title of "Discourse of Toleration in the Ottoman Empire (1544-1566)"

D. Burcu Eğilmez earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Middle East Technical University in 2011. She received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct part of her doctoral research at Northwestern University, and she also spent a semester at the University of Leiden as an Erasmus exchange student. Her doctoral thesis is concerned with the history of relations between the Ottoman state and its religious Others (Christians, Jews, heterodox Sufi orders, and Alevis), as well as the implications of such a history for the principles of toleration/intolerance and justice.

Her primary academic interests are the subjects of religion, gender, culture and, more specifically, the questions of difference, equality, justice, freedom, toleration and dissent in the contexts of Ottoman and Turkish political, social and cultural history.