Gulcin Con Wright

Gülçin Con Wright is an Assistant Professor at TED University's Department of Sociology within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She serves as Department Head and oversees the Migration Studies Master's Program in English. Her academic career includes teaching roles at TED University, Middle East Technical University, and Bilkent University. Dr. Wright specializes in family sociology, aging, and medical sociology with an intersectional gender focus.

Her research explores gender dynamics in caregiving across generations, intergenerational family ties in social media, and grandparental childcare support in Turkish and American contexts. Notable projects include SU Gender-funded research on grandmothers' childcare involvement and collaborative work with Dr. Jared M. Wright analyzing social media family relationships.

She has published in journals like Journal of Marriage and Family and The Gerontologist, with affiliations including Purdue University's Center on Aging and the Life Course. Her teaching includes courses on Sociology of Aging, Gender and Migration, and Medical Sociology.