Mediha Sorma

GWSS Alum '23

Mediha Sorma

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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

Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of Washington, 2023

M.A., Critical and Cultural Studies, Bogazici University, 2015

B.A., Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bogazici University, 2007

Dissertation: Militant Mothers of the Kurdish Resistance: Statelessness, Mothering and Subaltern Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Research

Selected Research

Sorma, M. (2023). Militant Mothers of the Kurdish Resistance: Statelessness, Mothering and Subaltern Politics in Contemporary Turkey. University of Washington Libraries.
Adviser: Chandan Reddy

Courses Taught

Winter 2026

GWSS 302 A: Feminist Theories and Methods

Autumn 2025

GWSS 360 A: Social Reproduction Theory and Radical Politics of Care

Spring 2025

Autumn 2023

GWSS 490 B: Special Topics in Women Studies

Summer 2023

GWSS 374 A: Introduction to Transgender Studies

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)
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)

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