Dilek Cindoglu, Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A. 1991. Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science, Bilkent University since 1991. She is a sociologist working on gender, internet, work, power, democracy, health and sexuality issues in contemporary Turkey and the Middle East. She received, “Direct Access to the Muslim World” award from the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program, to lecture at the Miami University, Ohio, Jan-Feb 2006, was a visiting fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality at New York University in 2003 summer, and senior fellow at the St.Antony’s College in , Oxford in 2002 summer as an Honorary Fellow and Fullbright scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center of University of Wisconsin at Madison, in 1998-1999 academic years. She is a graduate of Bogazici University, Istanbul (B.A. and M.A.) and State University of NewYork at Buffalo (Ph.D). She has training on focus groups and emotional intelligence education. She has been conducting Focus Groups, Search Conferences. EQ Workshops and Problem Solving Workshops for variouos organizations as well as for her own research. She has worked as consultant on various projects funded by by national (Tubitak, KSSGM, AAK ) and international (IDRC of Canada, Ford Foundation, World Bank, ILO-IPEC, EU ) sources and published in several international journals including Women’s Studies International Forum, European Women’s Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies. She has articles in edited books including Deniz Kandiyoti and Ayse Saktanber (ed) Fragments of Culture: The Everyday Life in Modern Turkey, I.B.Tauris, 2002. and Pinar Ilkkaracan (ed), Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Istanbul 2000. She has one daughter.

Email: cindoglu AT bilkent.edu.tr and dilekcindoglu AT gmail.com