Our Current Visiting Scholar

Dr. Ali Yildirim is a postdoctoral fellow in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. Yildirim earned his Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. in Cultural Studies from Istanbul Bilgi University. His research explores the entangled politics of sectarianism and sexuality, with a particular focus on the culturally marginalized Alevi community in Turkey. Yildirim’s teaching and research interests include queer and trans studies in religion, feminist research methods, language and knowledge production, affect theory, the politics of social movements, anthropology of the everyday, storytelling, queer memory and archives, and the Middle East.