Updated SEptember 2025
Areas of Expertise
- Areas of Specialization
feminist philosophy, linguistic justice, social & political philosophy - Areas of Competence
ethics, media ethics, philosophy of love & sex, philosophy of law
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- Lecturer, 2025
Philosophy & Religious Studies
Old Dominion University, VA, USA
EDUCATION
- PhD, Philosophy – 2026 expected
Syracuse University, NY, USA
Thesis Title: ‘Multilinguistic Agency and Linguistic Justice’
Committee: Hille Paakkunainen (Chair), Kenneth Baynes, Amandine Catala - MA, Philosophy – 2015
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Thesis Title: ‘Foundations of Normativity’
Committee: Irem Kurtsal Steen (Chair), Kenneth Westphal, Jack Woods - BA, Political Science and International Relations (Honors) – 2013
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey - BA, Philosophy (Honors) – 2013
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey - Erasmus Program, Political Science – Spring 2012
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
- Marjorie Boulton Fellowship ($10,000)
Esperantic Studies Foundation, awarded annually to two doctoral students in the humanities or social sciences: 2025-2026 - Dissertation Fellowship ($24,000)
Humanities Center at Syracuse University, awarded to two doctoral students in the humanities: 2023-2024 - Travel Grants ($750 – $300)
American Philosophical Association: 2023, 2024
Graduate Student Organization, Syracuse University: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Philosophy Department, Syracuse University: 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Philosophy Department, Bogazici University: 2015
RESEARCH
Dissertation
The standard account of linguistic agency in linguistic justice scholarship focuses on the instrumental role of language in communication and identity. Drawing from linguistics and feminist philosophy, I develop an alternative account which takes the articulation process as an integral part of linguistic agency and captures our intimate relationship with words themselves. This new perspective allows us to identify certain restrictions that nonnative speakers are prone to experience such as cognitive noise and alienation, which poses an impediment to their flourishing as linguistic agents and presents a new problem for linguistic justice theories. It also shows why, as opposed to the general opinion, new technologies will not solve all instances of linguistic injustice.
Peer-Reviewed
- “The Manifold Epistemic Challenges Faced by Non-native English Speakers in Philosophy.”
2025 Review of Philosophy and Psychology Uwe Peters (first author), Yener Cagla Cimendereli, Alex Davies, Charlotte Gauvry, Kiichi Inarimori, Anna Klieber, Sitian Liu, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Federica Russo, and Juan Samuel Santos-Castro.
Under-Revision in Philosophy Journals
- A paper on communicative curtailments in nonnative speaking – R&R
- A paper on the concept of nonnative speaker
In-Progress
- “Linguistic Alienation and Linguistic Character”
- “Inner Speech and Linguistic Justice”
Other Philosophical Output
- “An Existentialist Response to Babel Fish”, in Open for Debate
- “On the Duality of Dispossession: Scenes from Istanbul”, co-authored MA thesis of İpek Hamzaoğlu for the Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2018.
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
* refereed, ♱invited, #organized
- “Linguistic Justice in Academic Philosophy”
APA Eastern Division, Linguistic Justice Society, January 2026# - “An Existentialist Response to Babel Fish”
European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Panel on Linguistic
Justice and Technology, August 2025♱ – declined due to travel restrictions - “Linguistic Alienation and Linguistic Character”
Stockholm University, Linguistic Justice Workshop, April 2025♱ – declined due to travel restrictions - “The Concept of (Non)native Speaking”
Manchester University, New Directions in Linguistic Justice, September 2024*
International Social Ontology Society Conference, July 2024*
North American Society for Social Philosophy, July 2024*
Bogazici University, ‘Social Ontology Faces the Future’, June 2024* - “Cognitive Noise and Agency in Nonnative Speaking”
Salzburg University, ‘Inner Speech and Moral Cognition’, June 2024♱
Galway University, ‘Mapping Attention: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, April 2024*
Utrecht University, ‘Communication, Language, and Agency’, September 2023* - “Muting and Linguistic Justice”
APA Central Division (Symposium), January 2024* - “Phenomenology of Nonnative Speaking”
Linguistic Justice Society, March 2023♱
APA Eastern Division (Colloquium), April 2023*
New Orleans Philosophical Conference, LA, November 2022*
Practical Philosophy Working Group, Istanbul, December 2019♱ - “Cosmopolitanism and The Duty to Know”
University of Minho, Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, Braga, June 2015*
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
- “An Existentialist Account of Linguistic Agency”
Humanities Center, February 2024 - “Muting and Linguistic Justice”
Philosophy Department ABD Workshop, November 2023
Philosophy Department Working Papers, April 2022 - “Nonnative Speaking”
Philosophy Department Working Papers, October 2019 - “Normativity of Concepts”
Philosophy Department WAGM Working Papers, October 2018 - “The Duty to Know”
Philosophy Department WAGM Working Papers, October 2016
INVITED PUBLIC TALKS
- “Linguistic Alienation”
Halbuki Language Initiative, November 2024 - “Phenomenology of Nonnative Speaking”
Boston University Minorities and Philosophy Talks, Boston, MA, May 2021
Imbala Cultural Center, ‘Language, Politics, and Identity’’, Jerusalem, January 2021
İnsancil Hegel Reading Group, Istanbul, March 2020
COMMENTARIES
- “A Defense of Silencing Claim”, Yuna Won
APA Eastern Division, January 2025 - “Chicanx Triangulation: Distinct from Double Consciousness?”, Leonel Alvarez Ceja
The Creighton Club Conference, October 2024 - “Representations of OCD in Moral Philosophy”, Jared Smith
APA Central Division, February 2022 - “Ascriptivism and Inclusion: Gender Norms and Gender Roles”, Rowan Bell
Syracuse University Philosophy Department ABD Workshop, December 2021
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Primary Instructor, Old Dominion University
- Philosophy of Law (Spring 2026)
- Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2026, Fall 2025)
Primary Instructor, Syracuse University
- Philosophy of Feminism (Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Summer 2023, Spring 2023,Summer 2021, Spring 2021)
- Social and Political Philosophy (Fall 2024, Fall 2020, Fall 2019)
- Introduction to Logic (Summer 2024)
- Ethics and Media Professions (Summer 2022)
- Philosophy of Love & Sex (Winterlude 2021)
- Introduction to Moral Theory (Spring 2020)
Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University
- Ethics and Media Professions (W. Osborne, Fall 2022; A. Faller, Fall 2021)
- Introduction to Political Thought (D. Rasmussen, Spring 2022; G. Morgan, Fall 2018)
- Introduction to Logic (M. Heller, Spring 2019)
- Ethics and Contemporary Issues (L. Thomas, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
- Introduction to Ethics (S.Gorovitz, Spring 2016)
- Introduction to Metaphysics & Epistemology (R. Van Gulick, Fall 2015)
Teaching Assistant, Bogazici University
- Introduction to Logic I & II (I. Inan, Fall 2014 & Spring 2015)
- Critical Thinking (K. Soyhun, Spring 2014)
Teaching Mentor, Syracuse University
- University wide TA Orientation in 2022, 2021, 2020 (competitive selection)
SELECTED SERVICE WORK
* indicates paid position
- Founder, ‘Linguistic Justice Society’ at the American Philosophical Association – 2025
- Co-organizer, Linguistic Justice Society, 2022 – present
- Co-organizer, Barcelona Principles for a Globally Inclusive Philosophy, 2021 – present
- Reviewer, Philosophical Psychology
- President* (elected), SU Philosophy Graduate Student Organization, 2022 – 2023
- Organizer, SU Philosophy Women and Gender Minorities, 2021 – 2022
- Co-Representative, SU MAP Chapter, 2019 – 2020
- Representative, SU MAP Chapter, 2018 – 2019
- Co-Organizer, SU Philosophy Women’s Group Working Papers, 2015 – 2016
- Co-Organizer, SU Philosophy Graduate Conference, 2015 – 2016
Programs Attended
Competitive Selection
- The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Summer School (2018)
- Law on the Bosphorus: Current Trends in Human Rights Law (2013)
- Global Relations Forum Young Scholars Seminars (2012 – 2013)
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
- Anadolu Kultur inc. (Oct 2017 – July 2018)
Project Assistant: Developed culture and art projects that promote intercultural and interlinguistic exchange, prepared international grant applications, executed projects and led the follow-up processes. - Didaskali Theater (May 2012 – May 2014)
Producer: Co-produced the Turkish-French theatre company’s projects. - Embassy of the Turkish Republic in Moscow, Russia (July – Aug 2012)
Intern: Assisted 2nd secretaries of the embassy; prepared informative summaries on relevant issues to be sent to other units of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented the embassy in various platforms.
LANGUAGES
Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), French (Fluent)
REFERENCES
- Hille Paakkunainen – hpaakkun@syr.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University - Kenneth Baynes – krbaynes@syr.edu
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University - Amandine Catala – catala.amandine@uqam.ca
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal - Filippo Contesi – filippo.contesi@gmail.com
Assistant Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari - Kara Richardson (Teaching Reference) – kricha03@syr.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University