I am a sociologist, dancer, and dance/performance studies scholar. My trans-disciplinary research and teaching combine the arts with social and political theory. I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research with the dissertation "The EUropean Dance: The Emergence and Transformation of a Contemporary Dance Art World (1989-2013)." I held Fellowships at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry. Recently, I was a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin.  I served  as a jury member for the German Dance Platform 2020  and curated the iDANS Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance. My recent publications include: “Covid-19 Protests and the Performative Force of Untruth: Some Arendtian Intimations,” "Promises and Pitfalls of Political Curating in Live Arts," “Fragmented Spaces of Appearance,”; “The Object of My Inquiry,” and Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement. Currently, I am the Director of Programming and Research at Bimeras Berlin, the sister organization of Bimeras Istanbul, a not-for-profit initiative for inquiry across the arts, social sciences, and humanities. ​Also, I am a teacher training graduate of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® - Movement-Based Expressive Arts Therapy and Somatic Education.