Rate My Professor Zerrin Ozlem Biner

Biner serves as Convener of the MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the BIAA-IB Tauris Contemporary Turkey series. She is the Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded Archives of Solidarity project, which employs oral history, ethnography, literary, and audio-visual methods to create a multi-modal digital archive of solidarity practices between citizens and refugees in Turkey and the UK, involving partners like Kırkayak Kültür in Turkey and Kent Refugee Action Network in the UK. Her key publications include the monograph States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Co-existence in Southeast Turkey (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), nominated for the 2021 Victor Turner Prize. She co-edited Reverberations: Violence across Time and Space (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) with Yael Navaro, Alice von Bieberstein, and Seda Altuğ, and Law Against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law’s Transformations (Cambridge University Press, 2012) with Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, and Christian Strümpell. Additionally, she co-edited a special section on the Politics of Waiting in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute with Özge Biner.