Sertaç Sehlikoglu (B01)

Sertaç Sehlikoglu is an anthropologist and an Associate Professor at UCL, Institute for Global Prosperity. She leads the ERC-funded TAKHAYYUL project and is the author of Working Our Desire: Women, Sport and Self-Making in Istanbul (2021). She has co-edited multiple special journal issues on intimacy, critique, ethics, and imagination and serves as Reviews Section Editor for the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and the Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Islam.

Fatemeh Sadeghi (B01)

Fatemeh Sadeghi is Senior Research Fellow at UCL, Institute for Global Prosperity. Her research investigates political imagination as both an epistemological construct and an intersubjective phenomenon shaped by nostalgia, selective memory, and reinterpretations of the past. She was part of the ERC-funded TAKHAYYUL project, where she led the work package The Aftermath of Takhayyul.

Sumrin Kalia (B01)

Sumrin Kalia is a researcher and lecturer for civil society organizations at Department of Management at FU Berlin’s School of Business and Economics. Her research has been published in Political Science, Public Policy and Area Studies journals such as International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Contemporary South Asia etc. She is also the co-editor of the book Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia and has written several opinion pieces and policy papers.

Erol Saglam (B01)

Erol Saglam is Associate Professor of Sociology at Istanbul Medeniyet University and a Research Fellow at UCL. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University and Freie Universität Berlin, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. Saglam publishes on topics such as conspiracy theories and their socio-political effects, everyday dynamics that forge and maintain masculinities, vigilantism, bureaucracies, and ethnographic methods.

Alexander Pymm (B01)

Alexander Pymm holds an MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies programme from London School of Economics. Following his work at the UK House of Commons, providing research and communications support to Members of Parliament, he has worked as a project administrator and editorial assistant for the TAKHAYYUL Project.