Senem Kaptan
Senem Kaptan is a cultural anthropologist who studies militarism, nationalism, collective memory, and law and legality. Senem received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers University, where she completed a dissertation that analysed the treason and coup trials of military officers in contemporary Turkey, based on eighteen months of ethnographic research in Istanbul and Ankara. Most recently, Senem was the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Programme Fellow at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in New York where she monitored and reported on United Nations Security Council meetings and conducted advocacy work to advance the WPS agenda and feminist peace.
