İlhan Zeynep Karakılıç currently works in Department of Sociology at Bahçeşehir University. She completed her PhD dissertation titled “Transformation in Habitus in an Exchangee Village in the Black Sea Region of Turkey” in Department of Sociology, at Middle East Technical University in 2015. She received her MS degree from the same department in 2007 after gained her BA degree in Department of Economics, at Gazi University. She is a qualitative researcher and an expert on areas such as immigration, forced migration, social memory and sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. She has extensive field experience including in-depth interviews and participant observation in both rural and urban settings in addition to experience in theoretical research.
