Dilek Cindoğlu is a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Georgetown University ISIM and a Professor of Sociology at Kadir Has University, as well as a Women and Gender Studies Graduate Studies Coordinator. She is a graduate of Bogazici University, Istanbul (B.A. and M.A.) and received her Ph.D. (1991) from SUNY at Buffalo. She has published on the gendered processes of paid work, political participation, migration, health and sexuality in international journals and in book chapters. She was consultant on various research projects funded by national (Tubitak, KSSGM, AAK) and international (IDRC, Ford Foundation, World Bank, ILO, EU) bodies, served as an elected EC member at Turkish Sociological Association (2008-2014) and ISA International Sociological Association (2010-2018) and ESA European Sociological Association EC committees (2019-2021).