Hatice Kurtuluş Aydal

Hatice Kurtuluş graduated from Marmara University Department of Political Science and Public Administration and completed her PhD in METU Department of Architecture, Urban Planning with her thesis on "The role of Istanbul's historic farms in metropolitan growth". Kurtuluş has published books, articles and conference papers on Turkey's urbanisation experience, Istanbul's spatial history and urbanisation experience, sociology of architecture, urban segregation, urban class geography, spatiality of immigration, and the right to the city. He has carried out numerous research projects on which he bases his academic productions and has received TUBITAK project success awards. In addition to her research projects in Turkey, she continued her studies in TRNC with the project titled "Socio-Spatial Integration of Turkish Migrants in Northern Cyprus" and in Bielefeld University, Department of Sociology, Germany with the research titled "Spatial retention strategies of Turkish migrants in the deindustrialisation process of the NRW industrial basin" with TÜBİTAK foreign research support. While in Germany, she had the opportunity to work on the changing class geography in the re-centralisation processes of the border areas of the divided city after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Kurtuluş, who has lectured and supervised theses at Marmara University, Muğla University, MSGSÜ and Kadir Has University, continues to lecture and supervise theses at Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Political Science and Public Administration.