Module 9 Session 1 Materials
Prof. Şebnem Köşer Akçapar,
Ankara Social Sciences University
Dr. Sebnem Koser Akcapar is currently Visiting Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She works as Full Professor in Sociology at the Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU) where she also acts as the Director for the Global Migration Research Center (ASBU-GAUM). After completing her PhD in Belgium, she moved to the United States as a post-doc fellow at the Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University. She taught graduate courses on Gender and Migration, Muslim Immigrants in Western Europe and North America, Politics of Migration and Integration Problems at Georgetown University's prestigious School of International Service and the Center of German and European Studies. She was later appointed as the Director of Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies of Georgetown University. She also worked as visiting faculty member at JNU and South Asian University in New Delhi, India and taught on diaspora and transnationalism as well as on social stratification in Asia. She published many articles in peer-reviewed academic journals on different aspects of migration. Her research areas include gender and migration, role of religion in migratory movements, forced migration, labor migration, highly skilled migration, social networks in migration, diaspora formation and political mobilization.
