Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan

Dr. Kübra Zeynep Sarıaslan is a social anthropologist specialising in gender and development with a focus
on Turkey and Europe. Her book Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey: Gender, State, and
Development is based on her dissertation, which she defended at the University of Zurich in 2018. She held
a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge, where she researched on civil dialogue between
Turkey and Armenia. She has also been a fellow at the London School of Economics and the Centre for
Modern Oriental Studies (Leibniz Association). Her postdoctoral work examined transnational politics and
the creation of online news in exile. Currently, Dr Sariaslan is an associated researcher at the University of
Bern and also teaches part-time.