Asst. Prof. Mehmet Alper Yalçınkaya

Biography

M. Alper Yalçınkaya received his BA and MA in Sociology from Middle East Technical University. After completing two years of PhD studies at the History program of Sabancı University, he started the joint PhD programs in Sociology and Science Studies at University of California, San Diego. Upon completion of his PhD in 2010, he worked as assistant and associate professor of sociology at Ohio Wesleyan University. Yalçınkaya returned to Turkey and joined TED University in 2022.

A historical sociologist of science and religion, Yalçınkaya has numerous journal articles and is author of Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State and Society in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Yalçınkaya's research interests also include social theory, cultural sociology, sociology of art, sociology of emotions, and intellectual history.