GWSS Alumni Contact Information med1985@uw.edu Fields of Interest Critical Race Theory Cultural Theory Feminist Theory Kurdish Resistance Militarization Queer Studies Race and Ethnicity Reproduction Sexuality Transgender Studies Transnational Turkish Women of Color Biography B.A., Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bogazici University, 2007 M.A., Critical and Cultural Studies, Bogazici University, 2015 Courses Taught Autumn 2023GWSS 490 B: Special Topics in Women StudiesSummer 2023GWSS 374 A: Introduction to Transgender StudiesSummer 2022GWSS 302 A: Feminist Theories and MethodsAutumn 2021GWSS 200 AE: Introduction to Women StudiesGWSS 200 AF: Introduction to Women StudiesSummer 2021GWSS 206 A: Philosophy of Feminism Related News Related News Dr. Mediha Sorma Successfully Defends Dissertation (August 3, 2023) Mediha Sorma Contributes to Translation of Prison Writings by Kurdish Women Politicians (December 9, 2022) National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference 2021 (October 21, 2021) Graduate student, Mediha Sorma, awarded Pre-Doctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship (March 4, 2020) Mediha Sorma Receives Graduate School Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship (May 6, 2019) Mediha Sorma to present Subaltern Mothering and the Political Elsewhere - Militant Mothers of Kurdish Resistance towards a Stateless Freedom (April 16, 2019) National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference 2018 (November 9, 2018)
