Dr Zeynep Kaya

Zeynep completed her PhD in International Relations at the LSE, where she conducted research on the transformation of Kurdish nationalism and territorial identity in an international context. She spent five years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the LSE and taught topics including international relations, nationalism, politics and gender there as well as the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include gender, violence and development in Iraq, gender and displacement in Iraq and the wider Middle East, Kurdish nationalism and territorial imaginations. She is interested in understanding how communities and political groups perceive, interact with and challenge international processes and dominant norms.