• Nil Uzun
  • Nil Uzun
  • Nil Uzun is a postdoctoral research associate at the Technology and Diversity group at the RWTH Aachen University Institute of Sociology (profile)

    She holds a B.A. in economics from Bogazici University (Istanbul), an MA in cultural studies from Sabanci University (Istanbul), and an MA in social anthropology from Central European University (Budapest) and PhD in sociology from Rutgers University. Nil works on multiple different topics, including transnational networks of human rights organizations in Argentina and Turkey, the representations of ‘Middle East women’ in Western contemporary art, and the sociology of academic knowledge production in area studies scholarship. Her dissertation examined the geopolitics of computing speed and the global race for the fastest supercomputers.