Pronouns: she/her

Academic Qualifications

Since October 2024
Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

July 2023
MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven, Belgium
Thesis title: “She is not a customer, she is a sister”: Ordinary Intimacies at a Turkish-owned Hair Salon in Schaerbeek 
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nadia Fadil

August 2020
BA in Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

August 2020
BA in Philosophy, Bogazici University,  Istanbul, Turkey
(Double Major)

Part of the research area "Gender, Body, Sexuality"
Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)

Research Interests: Migration, intimacy, politics of beauty, emotion and affect, anthropology of the body and the senses, gender and sexuality, visual anthropology

Publications
Aydın, R.B. (2022). Beauty and the State: Bodily Self-making, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging, 19-21 July 2023, FU Berlin. Sociologus - Journal for Social Anthropology, 72(2), 165-169. https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.2022.1444505