Dr Hande Güzel

Dr Hande Güzel is a Mercator-IPC Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center, based at Sabancı University and Stiftung Mercator. She holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, titled ‘Becoming-Virgin: Re-Virginisation Practices in Turkey’. Prior to her PhD, she studied Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University (BA), and Comparative Studies in History and Society at Koc University (MA by research). Her current research explores the immigration processes of doctors from Turkey to Germany, whereas her most recent research focused on immigrant doctors living in Turkey. Dr Güzel is also a research affiliate at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and the data analyst and research consultant to the End Everyday Racism project at the same institution.

Research Interests

Sociology of gender, health and illness, sexuality, migration, the body; Turkey and the Middle East

Research Projects

From Turkey to Germany: The Immigration Experience of Medical Doctors (2023-ongoing)
Migration and Medicine: Bridging the Gap between Patients and Migrant Doctors (2022-2023)
End Everyday Racism, University of Cambridge (2020-ongoing)
Death and Death Announcements in Turkey, Koc University (2014-2015)

Teaching

Lecturing:

SOC3: Modern Societies II: Global Social Problems and Dynamics of Resistance

SOC11: Racism, 'Race' and Ethnicity

Supervising:

SOC1: Introduction to Sociology: Modern Societies I

SOC2: Social Theory

SOC3: Modern Societies II: Global Social Problems and Dynamics of Resistance

SOC10: Gender

SOC11: Racism, ‘Race’ and Ethnicity

SOC13: Health, Medicine and Society (Pembroke Semester Programmes)

SECHI: Social and Ethical Context of Health and Illness

Dissertation supervision (Pembroke-King's Programme)

Key Publications - Book Chapters

Güzel, Hande. 2020. 'Making of the Modern Woman’s Body: Re-Virginization in Turkey'. In Upgrades der Natur, künftige Körper: Interdisziplinäre und internationale Perspektiven, edited by Melike Sahinol, Christopher Coenen, and Raoul Motika. Springer VS.

Güzel, Hande. 2019. ‘Architecting the Mouth, Designing the Smile: The Body in Orthodontic Treatment in Turkey’. In Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society, edited by Diego Compagna and Stefanie Steinhart, 175–96. Sociology. Vernon Press.

Key Publications - Journal Articles

Güzel, Hande. forthcoming. ‘Space of Immotility and the Construction of the Neoliberal (Non-) Virgin Woman During the Post-Hymenoplasty Healing Period’ [Himenoplastiden Sonra: Himenoplasti Sonrası İyileşme Sürecinde Devinimsizlik Alanı ve Neoliberal (Na)Bakire Kadının İnşası]. Journal of Sociological Research.

Güzel, Hande. 2019. "A Madonna in Laleli and Secret: Marginalizing Revirginization and Revirginizers in Turkish Cinema." Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 15, no. 3: 416-422.

Güzel, Hande. 2019. "Review of the book Gender and HIV in South Africa by Courtenay Sprague". Sociology of Health and Illness, 41. 619-621.

Güzel, Hande. 2018. “Pain as Performance: Re-virginisation in Turkey.” Medical Humanities 44, no. 2: 89–95.

Palmer, V. and Whiteside, B. et al. 2014. "Symposium Abstracts: Pace, Penalty and Pirouette: The Sociology of Physical Culture." Scottish Journal of Performance 2, no.1: 87–103.