Asligul Berktay

Biography

Asligul Berktay is a Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at NYU Shanghai. She is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. She got her BA at Mount Holyoke College, graduating in 2003 with a double major in Critical Social Thought and Spanish, along with a minor in African Studies. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in both Spain and Senegal. She received an MA in History from Central European University in 2005, and her thesis was published in book form in 2009. Asli received her PhD from the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in 2015. While at Tulane, her research focused on the Atlantic slave trade and comparative slavery in Brazil, the Caribbean, and West Africa. She has also worked and published articles on race and race relations, social change, youth movements, and agency through popular culture in the same regions.

Research Interest

anthropology, sociology, literature, politics, cultural studies, gender studies, religious studies, and music.