Mehmet Fatih Tatari

Mehmet Fatih Tatari is a Lecturer at Bilkent University, holding a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis awarded in 2023.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Davis (2023)

Tatari's research centers on political ecology, agriculture and food systems, and science and technology studies. He investigates how dairy infrastructures, technoscientific practices, and geopolitical boundaries intersect in Turkish food production, particularly examining cheese-making traditions, geographical indications, and human-animal relations. His work reveals how food practices shape social hierarchies, ecological governance, and community identities in rural and urban Turkey.

Analysis of his 13 publications (2014-2025) shows consistent focus on Turkey's political food ecology, with recurring themes including dairy farming in northeastern Turkey, socio-technical aspects of cheese production, geographical indications for rural development, and pandemic impacts on Istanbul's food markets. His scholarship bridges anthropology, STS, and political geography through ethnographic studies of pasture-cheesemaking, microbial governance, and borderland food economies.