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Dr. Sedef Ozoguz is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Schools of Public Engagement at The New School. She completed her doctoral training at the City University of New York and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of York and University College London. Her research focuses on freedoms denied and freedoms desired in relation to gender and sexuality in non-Western communities. She has published on sexual and reproductive rights, sex education in the US and the impact of sexual empowerment discourses on immigrating women. She has been rewarded the Dissertation Fellowship and the Art Science Connect Award for her thesis on the liberation of women in Turkey, recognized for her contribution to both arts and sciences through multidisciplinary research design. Sedef is committed to public scholarship and has been involved in making gender and sexuality research accessible through her work at SexGenLab at Hunter College in New York, as well as through Wild Women of Anatolia, a documentary project about women’s freedom dreams in Turkey.  

Degrees Held

PhD in Critical Social Psychology, CUNY

MSc in Cognitive Decision Sciences, UCL 

BSc in Psychology, University of York

Recent Publications

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.

Hooberman, L., & Ozoguz, S. (2022). Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(9), e12703.

Research Interests

Gender and sexuality

Transnational research

Non-Western psychologies

Mixed-methods and qualitative designs