Evren Savci

Evren Savcı is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her first book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (2021, DUP) analyzes sexual politics under contemporary Turkey’s AKP regime with an eye to the travel and translation of sexual political vocabulary. Her second book project, Monogamy and its Discontents, turns to the political economy of monogamy through an investigation of two of its alternatives, polygamy and polyamory in contemporary Turkey. She is the co-editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly special issue “Transnational Queer Materialism” with Rana M. Jaleel (UC Davis), and the forthcoming JMEWSspecial issue “Wordmaking/Worldmaking: Languages, Movements, Materialisms” with Beshouy Botros (Yale). Her work on the intersections of language, knowledge, sexual politics, neoliberalism and religion has appeared in Journal of Marriage and the Family, Ethnography, Sexualities, Political Power and Social Theory, Theory & Event, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, GLQ, and New Perspectives on Turkey, and in several edited collections. Savcı received her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Southern California. Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral fellow at The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN).