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studied political science at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She received her M.A. degree in Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, University of London in 1998. Her research focused on intellectual movements in the Middle East with a special emphasis on Islamism and secularism in Turkey. In 2007 she completed her Ph.D. at CNWS (School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies) in Leiden University with a dissertation titled Myths and Memories of Secularism in Turkey (1946–1966). She worked as part-time lecturer at Leiden University and Utrecht University from 2004-2006. Her publications include: A Reaction to Authoritarian Modernization in Turkey: The Menemen Incident and the Creation and Contestation of a Myth, 1930–31, in T. Atabaki, ed., The State and the Subaltern: Modernization, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), 143–58; Secularism in Turkey as a Nationalist Search for Vernacular Islam: The Ban on the Call to Prayer in Arabic (1932–1950), REMMM, La Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée,123 (2008): 161–77.