Bahar Sakizlioglu

Bahar Sakizlioglu is an urban sociologist who completed her PhD. titled “A Comparative Look at Residents’ Displacement Experiences: The Cases of Amsterdam and Istanbul” at the Urban and Regional Research Center, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2014. Following her doctoral studies, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, Leicester University, UK, where she conducted a comparative research project on Gendered Geographies of Gentrification, in Istanbul and Amsterdam, exploring the intersection of gender, gentrification, and urban spaces, funded by a H2020 Marie Curie Individual Research Fellowship. Her commitment to interdisciplinary studies has led her to develop a diverse set of research interests, including gentrification, displacement, housing, feminist urban studies, social reproduction, and comparative urbanism. She has published on the politics of gentrification and displacement experiences of disadvantaged groups in gentrifying neighborhoods, the gender-gentrification nexus, and social reproduction theory.