Faculty

Dr. Sedef Ozoguz is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts in Psychology in the Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students (BPATS). She earned her PhD in Critical Social Psychology from the City University of New York (CUNY), and holds degrees in Psychology and Cognitive and Decision Sciences from the University of York and University College London (UCL).

Her research explores gender and sexuality through transnational, transdisciplinary, and transmodal approaches, and has been published in leading journals such as Qualitative Psychology and Feminism & Psychology. Beyond academia, Sedef is dedicated to public scholarship, using documentary film to make gender and sexuality research accessible to wider audiences. Her film, Wild Women of Anatolia, which centers on the freedom dreams of women in Türkiye, has been screened at international festivals including Documentarist, Beyond Borders, and Antioch.

She currently serves as co-director of SexTechLab, where she investigates how sexuality, gender, race, culture, technology, and intimacy intersect in contemporary society.

PhD in Critical Social Psychology, CUNY

MSc in Cognitive Decision Sciences, UCL 

BSc in Psychology, University of York

Ozoguz, S. (2025). Artful interpretive thematic analysis of Women’s narratives of freedom. Culture & Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X251340193

Ozoguz, S. (2024). “No but where are you really from?”: Critically examining reflexivity through field notes from a feminist psychological research in Turkey. Feminism & Psychology, 35(1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535241293546  

Ozoguz, S. (2024). The Westernization of social and personality psychology in Turkey and the ongoing struggle for indigenous perspectives: A historical review and an agenda for liberating psychology. History of Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000267

Ozoguz, S. (2023). How sexual empowerment gets in the way of liberation: A case study of a Turkish immigrant woman. Qualitative Psychology, 10(2), 262–276. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000255 

Hooberman, L., & Ozoguz, S. (2022). Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(9), e12703. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12703