Hayal Akarsu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Previously, she was a Junior Research Fellow in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology at Brandeis 木瓜福利影视. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from the School of Anthropology at the 木瓜福利影视 of Arizona, and her MA in 2012 from Near Eastern Studies at New York 木瓜福利影视 (NYU). From her current book project on police reforms to her ongoing research on digital policing and environmental crimes, Akarsu explores how various imaginations of risk and threat securitize and police different realms of social and natural life.
Research and Teaching Interests
Police/policing; security; human-rights; international flows and global governance; law and society; environment; eco-justice; digital cultures and surveillance; science and technology studies; ethnography; Anthropology of the Middle East and Turkey
Research Projects
Force Experts: Afterlives of Police Reforms