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Esra Özcan, Department of Communication Tulane University

Esra Özcan

Associate Chair
Senior Professor of Practice
504-862-3043
219 Newcomb Hall, Office H

Education

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, PhD
Boğaziçi University, BA., MA.

Biography

Research Interests

  • Representations of gender in news photographs
  • Postcolonial feminism
  • Islam and Muslims in the media
  • The politics of dress in Turkey
  • Religion, politics and the media in Turkey

Selected Publications

Book

Özcan, Esra (2019). Mainstreaming the Headscarf: Islamist Politics and Women in the Turkish Media. London: Bloomsbury Publishing (I.B. Tauris).
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mainstreaming-the-headscarf-9781788314015/

Articles