Esra Kazanbas

PhD Student

Areas of Interest

Body Politics
Biopower
Spatial Theory
Violence Against Women
Transnational Feminism

Biography

Esra is a PhD student and a Connaught Scholar in Women & Gender Studies Institute. Before moving to Toronto, she completed her master’s degree in Gender and Social Justice Studies program at University of Alberta and bachelor’s degree in English at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Esra is interested in body politics, Foucauldian analysis, aesthetics of space and power, sexual violence, and, violence against women.

Esra has been the recipient of numerous academic and non-academic awards including Connaught International Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, Hammed Shahidian Award, Khalida Quraishi Memorial Graduate Award in Islamic Studies and CFUW Margaret Brine Bursary.

Program: PhD 2019

Education

MA, University of Alberta

BA, Bogazici University

Dissertation

Supervisor: Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani