Seçil Dağtaş is Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada and is a UofT alumnus. Her main research interests lie in understanding how people make, cross and surpass religious boundaries with a particular focus on the relationship between Islam and secularism, the Islamic conduct with Christian and Jewish communities, and the legacy of the Ottoman regime of diversity in the Muslim world. Her current project entails an ethnographic study of refugee-minority relations along the Turkish Syrian border.
Lectures:
- “On governing difference as a condition for sovereignty and non-sovereignties in Turkey”