is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, İstanbul Kemerburgaz University. Her research focuses on the history of children and youth during the 19th and 20th  centuries, and her prominent publications include Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse University Press, 2014), “Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and ‘Reform’ in the Late Ottoman Urban Space”, IJMES , 43 (2011) and “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Historical Sociology, 21 (2008).