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Dr. Gizem Sivri is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) of the Free University of Berlin, collaborating with Stanford University's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. Her current research examines representations of Ottoman female perpetrators in late Ottoman and early republican literature and press (1860-1922), while transforming her doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript.
Her academic background includes:
- BA in History from Istanbul Bilgi University (2014)
- MA in Modern Turkish History from Boğaziçi University's ATA Institute (2017)
- PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (2022)
Dr. Sivri's research critically explores Ottoman historical criminology through interdisciplinary lenses of gender studies, legal history, and prison studies. Her work centers on women's incarceration, penal biopolitics, and the representation of female criminals in Ottoman contexts, revealing how gendered power structures shaped criminal justice systems. She employs feminist theoretical frameworks to analyze marginalized narratives in archival documents and literary texts.
Her publication record demonstrates a clear trajectory from foundational studies on women's imprisonment (2017-2020) to sophisticated analyses of biopolitics and literary representations (2022-2024), with increasing methodological complexity across historical, criminological, and literary domains.
Major recognitions include:
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023)
- Best Research Award 2024 by International Academic Achievements and Awards Organization
- LMU-UCB Postdoctoral Research Grant (2022)
- Dicle Koğacıoğlu Essay Competition Third Prize (2019)
Dr. Sivri has secured substantial research funding including Gerda Henkel Stiftung's PhD Scholarship (2018) and Zeit Stiftung's Pre-Doctoral Grant (2017). She taught Ottoman social, political, and legal history for six semesters at LMU Munich during doctoral studies and maintains active supervision of emerging scholars in Ottoman gender history.
She operates within collaborative research networks spanning the BGSMCS at Free University of Berlin, Stanford's Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and UC Berkeley's Department of History, where she served as a visiting scholar in 2022.
