Associate Instructional Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Ph.D. 2010

Dissertation: Language, Self and Context: Socio-Historical Constitution and Interactional Actualization of the Self Through Discourse Genres; the Case of Turkish Heteroglossia

Dr. Sevda Numanbayraktaroglu specializes in the field of human development across the life span with an emphasis on the social constitution of the self and gendered emotional subjectivity. Much of her research addresses the topics of the self and language, subjectivity and social change, and language socialization. Her work focuses on Turkey, and combines ethnographic, quantitative, and discourse analytic methods.