I am a sociocultural anthropologist from Seoul. Currently, I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. I will be defending my dissertation in May 2025.
My research examines a central question arising in contentious times: How do people understand and navigate a collective life shaped by fundamental disagreements? To engage with this problem-space amid the global rise of right-wing politics, I work on the intersections of religious belonging and gendered citizenship as critical arenas of polarized politics in Turkey/Türkiye. Building on the anthropologies of Islam and the state as well as semiotics and feminist social theory, my work advances the anthropology of polarized worlds by analyzing divisions and controversies shaped by conservative religious traditions and their implication on women’s lifeworlds and fractured belonging.
