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Esra Sarıoğlu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Previously, she held positions at Ankara University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Her research focuses on gender, globalization, emotions, embodiment, and precarity, particularly in the Global South. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Binghamton University.
Her groundbreaking work The Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey (Oxford UP, 2022) won the ASA’s 2023 Best Book Award in Body and Embodiment. Her publications appear in Gender, Work & Organization, Women's Studies International Forum, and others.
Her research explores intersections of emotion, capitalism, and authoritarianism, with a focus on urbanization and women’s activism in Turkey. She investigates how embodiment and affect shape labor dynamics, globalization, and resistance under neoliberalism.
