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Caglar Dolek
Assistant Professor
Çağlar Dölek is engaged in an interdisciplinary research agenda that spans the fields of critical criminology, urban sociology, political economy, and social history. He has a particular interest in the formation of state power with the emergence of modern policing and its dialectical relationship with the contested processes of class formation, social marginalization, and political contestation.
Dr. Dölek is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher who firmly believes in the transformative power of higher education, which equips students with skills in informed, critical thinking, and communication. He enjoys working with students both inside and outside the classroom to foster possibilities for critical thinking, alternative imagination, and creative potential, empowering them as active and concerned citizens in a democratic society.
Areas of Interest
Carceral State, Policing & Urban Marginality Urban Marginality & Contentious Politics Counterinsurgency & Military Urbanism Neoliberal Authoritarianism Global South, MENA region, Turkey
- Ph.D. Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Political Economy, Carleton University, 2019
- M.S. Political Science and Public Administration, Middle East Technical University, 2011
- B.S. International Relations, Middle East Technical University, 2008
- SOC 650: Race, Ethnicity & Gender; SOC 480: Marginalized Poor & Radical Imagination; CRIM 325W: Law & Society; CRIM 410: Theories of Justice & Crime; CRIM 433: Punishment & Justice in Cross-National Perspective; SOC 330: Social Deviance
Dr. Dölek is currently completing a book manuscript titled Policing Slums in Turkey: Crime, Resistance, and the Republic on the Margin (under contract with the Edinburgh University Press). Utilizing oral narratives, official discourses, visual imaginaries, and literary representations in the context of the making of police power and urban marginality in Ankara, Turkey’s national capital, this book manuscript offers a critical contribution to international social historiographies on policing, law, and crime from the perspective of the Global South. This research was nominated for a Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement in 2019 and received the Cal Poly Humboldt Promising Faculty Scholars Award in 2024.