معرفی
Omer Ozcan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, specializing in Sociocultural Anthropology and the Middle East. His research examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of militarization and human rights violations in Turkey, particularly in the Kurdish borderlands, through ethnographic studies of displaced communities and political resistance.
- Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
His work explores themes such as Violence, Mobility, Borders, Indigenity, and Human Rights, focusing on how marginalized groups navigate and subvert systemic oppression. Ozcan is currently finalizing his book manuscript Strategic Waiting: Violence, Mobility, and Agency in the Kurdish Borderlands in Turkey, which analyzes waiting as a political act in militarized contexts.
Ozcan teaches courses on Global Indigeneity, Human Rights, and Ethnography of Politics. His research regions include Turkey and the Kurdish Borderlands, with methodological emphasis on ethnographic fieldwork and temporal analysis.
