Professor Güran is a sociologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. Previously, she was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2020-2021, and an assistant professor at the London School of Economics in 2021-2022. Güran received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2020.

Her research brings together economic sociology, migration studies, and cultural sociology, drawing primarily on ethnographic and experimental methods.