1- Key areas of study

• Gender
• Human Rights
• Sociology of Sports
• Social Movements
• Philosophy of Communication
• Social Entrepreneurship

2- Academic Works

2019, Eslen-Ziya, H, McGarry, A. Jensen, O., Erhart, Itir, Korkut, U. Beyond the iconic protest images: the performance of ‘everyday life’ on social media during Gezi Park. Social Movement Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/147428...

2018, I. Erhart, H. Eslen Ziya,  Sinemada Yaşlılık ve Erkeklik (Aging and Masculinity in Cinema), Yaşlanma ve Yaşlılık: Disiplinlerarası Bakış Açıları, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları

2017, I. Erhart, Do Women Get the Offside Rule? Female Fans, Labeling and Stereotypes in Turkey, Race, Gender and Sport: The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women, Routledge.

2017, I. Erhart, A. Sayan, V. Görgülü, & Y. Aslanbay, A Social Influence Perspective on Uses of Online Football Forums: The Case with Turkish Football Fans, Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements, IGI Global. 

2017, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Blossoms in the Steppes: Republican Masculinity Project in Crisis, Istanbul University Journal of Women's Studies 1, 17-29.

2016, I. Erhart, Women, Islamic Feminism and Children Only Soccer in Turkey: empowerment or discrimination? Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities, Routledge.

2015, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Mr. Incredible, Man of Action, Man of Power: What If He Loses It All? Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield.

2015, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, “Toward postheroic leadership: A case study of Gezi’s collaborating multiple leaders”, Leadership.

2014, I. Erhart “United in Protest: From ‘Living and Dying With Our Colours’ to ‘Let All The Colours of the World Unite’”, International Journal of the History of Sport 31, 1724-38.

2014, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, Janissary: An Orientalist Heroine or a Role Model for Muslim Women, Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield.

2013, I.Erhart, ‘Biopolitics & the Gezi Protests’, MDHSS2013, Atlantis Press, 301-304.

2013, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, ‘Dengeli, Ölçülü, Yetinen ve Tek Tip Türk Çocuğu: Resimli Çocuk Kitaplarında Kimlik İnşası’, Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi 16-1, 46-73.

2013, I. Erhart, ‘Ladies of Besiktas: A dismantling of male hegemony at Inönü Stadium’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport 48, 780-92.

2012, I. Erhart, ‘Bir Girişimci Gazetecilik Projesi: MADE’, Pi, 53-55

2012, I.Erhart, G. Sanul, Gençtur: Dünya Vatandaşlığı’na İlk Adım, Büyüyen Kapsayıcı Piyasalar: Türkiye’de Sosyal Girişimcilik Vakaları, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.

2012, I. Erhart, ‘The Disabled Sporting Body and The Media’, Akdeniz İletişim, 80-89.

2010, I. Erhart, ‘Privacy, Confidentiality and the Press’, Empedocles 2, 157-66.

2008, I.Erhart, ‘The Human Being’s Right to Privacy’, Communication in the Millennium, 55-63.

2008, I. Erhart, Ben Neyim? Kişiler ve İnsanlar Üzerine Bir Çalışma, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ph.D. in Philosophy (2006)

Dissertation: What am I? A Non-Psychological Answer to a Fundamental Question

Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

M. Phil. in Philosophy (2000)

Thesis: Personal Identity Through Time

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

M.A in Philosophy (1999)

Thesis: The Existence of Two Things at the Same Place at the Same Time

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.A. in Western Languages and Literatures and Philosophy (1997)

Thesis: The Existentialist Novel

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