Bahar Tabakoğlu

Visiting Scholar (Spring 2021)

Bahar Tabakoğlu holds a PhD in Sociology from the New School For Social Research. She was previously a visiting scholar (2015-2017) at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University. Her current work examines the social constituents, particularly the working class component, of religious politics in Turkey and India. Her research interests intersect political sociology, sociology of religion and sociology of labor with a focus on modern Turkey and India. Her research and teaching interests extend as well to modern social movements, civil society and state theory, classical and contemporary social theory and research methods. She has been the recipient of multiple grants, fellowships and awards from the New School For Social Research and the India China Institute (ICI) of the New School. She is currently teaching at New York University (NYU) and City University of New York (CUNY).