William and Sally Searle Research Fellow
About
Demet Bolat is a sociologist and feminist scholar. Her master’s research examined the complex entanglements between heterosexism and oppositional movements in Turkey, offering a critical account of how gendered and sexualized norms shape political contestation. Her doctoral dissertation analysed feminist commoning practices through a multi-dimensional framework, focusing on labor, value, politics, affect, and processes of community-making.
Bolat's current research examines the political, institutional, and epistemological effects of anti-genderism on academia in Turkey. It focuses on the reconfiguration of feminist knowledge practices and the resistance strategies developed by gender scholars under authoritarian conditions. Alongside her academic publications, she is one of the editors of Feminist Bellek, a feminist web-based platform dedicated to publicising gender studies and making feminist theory accessible to broader publics.
Her research interests span gender studies, feminist theory and epistemology, the politics of the commons, and the sociology of community.
Demet Bolat is the inaugural William and Sally Searle Research Fellow as part of the Institute for the Humanities new Scholars in Exile program.
