I am a sociologist who utilizes a wide range of quantitative and computational methods to study intergroup relations, immigration, culture, and politics. My work primarily focuses on ethnic and racial prejudice, anti-immigrant attitudes, and the ways culture and politics interact across both Western and non-Western contexts.

My recent article in Social Forces, Religious Rebound, Political Backlash, and the Youngest Cohort: Understanding Religious Change in Turkey, received the 2025 Distinguished Article Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR). It also earned the 2025 Lombra Outstanding Graduate Research Award from Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, recognizing it as the best social science article published by a graduate student at Penn State.

I hold an M.A. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University, where my master’s thesis on the attitudes of majority and minority group members toward immigrants received the 2024 Huber-Form Award. Before my time at Penn State, I earned an M.A. from the University of Mannheim as a DAAD–TEV scholarship holder, and I completed my B.A. in Sociology at Boğaziçi University.

My research has appeared in Social Forces and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, and has been featured in several media outlets. Feel free to explore my CV and the Publications page for more details about my research.