Dr. Pınar Şenoğuz

Sociologist, Gender relations and violence in conflict areas Gender/Queer Studies, Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Vita

Dr. Pınar Şenoğuz is a research associate at Technical University of Applied Sciences Cologne through a tandem program preparing emerging academics for professorships at universities of applied sciences, alongside her advisory role at medica mondiale, an international women’s rights and development organization. Her current research areas focus on peace and conflict studies, gender studies and social psychology, with expertise on international social work and conflict-related sexual violence.

Dr. Şenoğuz holds a PhD Degree in Sociology (2014) from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. A recipient of Philipp Schwarz Fellowship (2016) and Volkswagen Foundation Fellowship (2018), she continued her academic career in Germany at the University of Göttingen and at the University of Osnabrück. In addition, Dr. Şenoğuz worked in civil society organisations advocating for citizens’ and women’s rights in Turkey as well as Germany.

She is the co-founder of Academics for Peace – Germany Association (Wissenschaftler*innen für den Frieden e.V.), a network for Turkish academics in exile.

Focus of Work

Critical border and migration studies, Gender and Homemaking, theories of power and agency, sexualisied violence in conflict, qualitative methods (Oral History, ethnography)

Publications (selection)

Fleckinger, Andrea; Gruber, Daniela; Şenoğuz, Pınar; Griese, Karin; Poggio, Barbara (2025) Transgenerational traumatization and sexualized violence: A systematic review on an omnipresent, shadowed theme in social work theory and practice, The British Journal of Social Work, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf061.

Brković, Čarna; Kapetanovič, Mišo; Riedner, Lisa; Şenoğuz, Pınar; Streinzer, Andreas (2025). Queer(ing) Claims-Making - Making Queer Claims - Claiming Queerness?, in Agnieszka Balcerzak et al. (Hrs.) Mapping Gender Struggles, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, zum Erscheinen 2025.

Şenoğuz, P.(2023) Seeking Normalcy in Impossible Homes: Gender, Uncertainty, and Housing Tactics in German Reception Centers. In: Gender, Flucht, Aufnahmepolitiken. Migrationsgesellschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Hoffman, Susanne; Şenoğuz, Pınar (2018). Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender and violence in contexts of migration and displacement. gender<ed> thoughts: New Perspectives in Gender Research Working Paper Series 2018, Volume 1. 

 

Keywords

Impact-oriented study, esp. psychosocial interventions in conflict and post-conflict contexts

Casegroup

Social Sciences