Asli Vatansever Editor

Aslı Vatansever is a sociologist of work with a focus on precarious academic labor. Currently she is a Research Fellow at Bard College Berlin. Her books include Ursprünge des Islamismus imOsmanischen Reich. Eine weltsystemanalytische Perspektive (Sources of Islamism in the OttomanEmpire. A World Systems Analysis Perspective, 2010), Ne Ders OlsaVeririz. Akademisyenin Vasıfsız İşçiye Dönüşümü (Ready to Teach Anything. The Transformationof the Academic into Unskilled Worker, 2015 – co-authored with Meral Gezici-Yalcın) and At the Margins of Academia. Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity (2020).

Aysuda Kölemen (PhD University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 2010) is a comparative political scientist and a journalist. After she was dismissed from her position as an assistant professor in Turkey in 2017 for her political stance, her activist and research interests turned to the economic as well as the political dimensions of academic freedom. Her recent publications such as Illiberal Democracy or Electoral Autocracy: The Case of Turkey (with Gülçin Coşkun, 2020), and Reflections on Exile and Academic Precarity: Discussing at the Margins of Academia (with Aslı Vatansever, 2020) focus on freedom, resistance, and precarity in academia.□