Caroline Tee

Professor Caroline Tee is a scholar specializing in the Anthropology of Islam, focusing on religion, society, and state dynamics in modern Turkey. She holds a position at the University of Chester within the Department of Humanities, Cultures and Environment. Her research explores intersections between religion, democratic politics, modern science, secular education, and civic engagement. She has conducted extensive fieldwork on Turkey’s Alevi minority and the socio-religious movement led by Fethullah Gülen. Emerging interests include the cultural history of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Professor Tee teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on global and contemporary Islam, religion and violence, and research methodologies. She is series editor (with Ashraf Hoque) for Edinburgh Studies in Anthropology of Islam and lead editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey. Since 2024, she leads the £1.2m Templeton Religion Trust-funded project ‘Muslims, the Secular, and Existential Risk’.