Month: August 2020

*EN | TR Having obtained her Ph.D. from Koç University, Sociology Department in 2021, Aybike Alkan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the History of Technology Department of TU Berlin. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from Middle East Technical University and earned her MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Koç University. Her Ph.D. study focused on the practices and discourses of water and energy infrastructure buildup in southeastern Turkey as they relate to the politics of scale-making. Her current work sits at the intersection of politics of expertise, technology transfer, and energy infrastructures.   Istanbulab Footprints… She contributed to the special issue that IstanbuLab members prepared for the peer-reviewed journal Toplum ve Bilim with the articl...

*EN | TR Burcu Mutlu recently received her Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also a research associate in the program in Science, Religion, and Culture (SRC) at Harvard Divinity School. She earned her BA in International Relations and Political Science from Marmara University and her MA in Sociology from Bogazici University. Her research interests include assisted reproductive technologies (namely IVF, gamete donation, sex selection & PGD), transnational reproduction, technologies of care, feminist STS, and digital STS. She regularly contributes writings on reproduction, science & technology, and gender to 5harfliler.com (a Turkish-language feminist blog). She also wrot...