2008-2016      Middle East Technical University, Department of Sociology, Turkey (PhD)

2005-2008       Middle East Technical University, Department of European Studies, Turkey (M.S.)

2000- 2004     Middle East Technical U

Academic Positions:

May 2023 – Postdoctoral researcher at Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES)

2022 - University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Denmark. External Researcher.

2020-2022 University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Denmark. Marie Curie Fellow.

2019 - 2020 Başkent University, Sociology Department (English Program), Turkey. Instructor.

2019 Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Turkey. Part-time Instructor.

2018 - 2019 Başkent University, Sociology Department, Turkey. Part-time Instructor.

Research Funds:      

2020-2022. EC Marie Curie-Sklodowska Individual Fellowship. "Gendered Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women’s Media in Turkey"

2017 – 2018"The Recreated Nostalgia in Ankara Castle and Its Surroundings". Funded by Yüksel Erimtan Culture and Art Foundation, Ankara, Turkey.

Research Awards:

Sabancı University, Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence, 2018 Şirin Tekeli Research Award, Research Project: "Yeni Osmanlı Kına Geceleri ve Saray Nostaljisi içinde Kadınlar" ("New Ottoman Henna Nights and Women in Palace Nostalgia")

Writing Prize:         

Journal of Ankara Studies 2018 Writing Prize with the article, "Re-Creating Nostalgia: Urban Culture in Citadel, Hamamönü and Hamamarkası neighbourhoods of Ankara", Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Ankara Studies), 6, (2), pp. 145-166.

Memberships:          

Danish Association for Study of Religions

Frontiers in Political Science Journal – Editorial Board Member

niversity, Department of Sociology, Turkey (B.S)

Books:

Onur, P. (forthcoming). Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey: A Critical Reading. Palgrave Macmillan.

Raudvere, C. & Onur, P. (Ed.s) (2022). Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan.

Contributions to Edited Volumes:

Onur, P. (2022). The New Ottoman Henna Nights and Women in the Palace of Nostalgia. In C. Raudvere & P. Onur (Ed.s) Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-32.

Catharina, R. & Onur, P. (2022) "I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans": Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries. An Introduction. In C. Raudvere & P. Onur (Ed.s) Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, pp 209-236.

Onur, P. (2022). The Politics of Nostalgia: The New Urban Culture in Ankara’s Historic Neighbourhoods. In P. Hecker, I. Furman, K. Akyıldız (Ed.s) The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 253-274.

Articles:

Onur, P. (2019). Emergence of a Discourse or New Articulations of Orientalist Biases:  The First Ethnographies on Women and Islam in Turkey. Fe Dergi, 11(1), pp. 23-33.

Onur, P. (2018) Re-creating Nostalgia: Urban Culture in Citadel, Hamamönü and Hamamarkası Neighbourhoods of Ankara. Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Ankara Studies) 6(2), pp. 145-166.

Islam and gender, contemporary Turkey, nostalgia, discourse and power, urban culture, media.