Kristen Sarah Biehl works as a faculty member researcher at Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). She holds a BA in Social Anthropology and Development Studies from SOAS (2005), MA in Sociology from Bogazici University (2008) and D.Phil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2018). Since 2006 she has been involved both academically and professionally in intensive research within the migration and asylum field in Turkey, having worked closely with a wide range of international, national and local actors and different migrant and refugee communities. Her research centers on ethnographies of migration, diversification and urban change, governing effects of migration and asylum policy frameworks, and gendered impacts of migration. In recent years she has also been exploring intersections of gender, ecological movements and climate change, including her current research exploring how civil society in Turkey working in the fields of migration and environment incorporate gendered approaches into their work and organizational culture.
