Current Postdoctoral Fellow
Deniz Duruiz earned her PhD from Columbia University, Department of Anthropology. Her doctoral dissertation Dispossession, Racialization, and Rural Kurdish Labor Migration in Turkey concentrates on seasonal agricultural labor and similar low-paying rural labor practices in western Turkey, performed by over one million Kurdish and Arab migrant workers from the Kurdish region and Syrian refugees. Her work explores the connections between political violence, racialization, organization of capitalist production, and labor migration.