Türkiye
I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and I serve as the department chair of Sociology at TED University. My teaching and research interests include family sociology, sociology of aging, medical sociology, sociology of the body from an intersectional perspective. I received my Bachelor's degree in Sociology at Boğaziçi University in 2007. During the Fall semester in 2006, I studied abroad at Emory University where I developed an academic interest in sociology of aging. I pursued this interest further in the Master's program at Middle East Technical University Sociology department where I also worked as a research assistant. I wrote a Master's thesis entitled "Negotiation of Parent Care among Siblings" as an advisee of Dr. Sibel Kalaycıoğlu. After being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and completing my Master’s degree in 2013, I moved to Indiana, U.S.A., to pursue a Dual-Title PhD. in Sociology and Gerontology with a Graduate Concentration on Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. I worked as a Fulbright Fellow and research assistant at Within-Family Differences Study lab under the supervision of my advisor, Dr. J. Jill Suitor. I was also affiliated with the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue. In collaboration with my research team members, I published several book and encyclopedia chapters as well as peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Journal of Marriage and Family, The Gerontologist, The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences, and Research on Aging. I received a research grant from Purdue Graduate School to conduct my dissertation study on older married couples’ initiation and negotiation of parental support to their adult children in later life. Upon successfully defending my dissertation and completing my PhD. in 2018, I moved back to Turkey and started teaching at Middle East Technical University, TED University, and Bilkent University as a part-time lecturer. In January 2020, I joined the Sociology department at TED University as an Assistant Professor.
https://www.tedu.edu.tr/en/gulcin-con-wright
Sociology of the Body (Spring 2019) - Undergraduate Level Medical Sociology (Fall 2019) - Undergraduate Level Human Development and Social Policy (Spring 2020/2021) - Graduate Level
Introduction to Sociology
Sociological Theory (Spring 2016, Fall 2017) Introduction to Statistics (Spring 2017) Race & Ethnicity (Spring 2018) Introduction to Sociology (Spring 2018)
Introduction to Sociology - 2 online (Summer 2016, Summer 2018) & 2 in-class sections (Summer 2014, Fall 2016) Social Problems - 2 in-class sections (Summer 2015, Fall 2015)
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jsuitor/within-family-differences-study/index.html