Selen Güler (she/they)

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Biography

M.A., Sociology, University of Washington, 2019
B.A., Sociology, Boğaziçi University, 2017
minor, Political Science & International Relations, Boğaziçi University, 2017
Erasmus+ grantee, Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, 2014
Curriculum Vitae (81.57 KB)

Selen is a student of political economy, culture, and institutions. For her dissertation project, Selen is conducting interviews with key informants in Seattle and analyzing new types of archival evidence like city council meeting videos to understand subnational state formation, with a focus on tax policy. This research grapples with the politics of redistribution in superstar cities. Selen is exploring how institutional contexts, shifting coalitions, and the rhetoric of housing relate to tax reform.

Selen works at UW-based interdisciplinary Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity (CERSE), doing participatory action research and program evaluation. She serves on the EDI Committee for Cosmic Explorer.

Awards and Honors

Dissertation Fellowship, The Center for Engaged Scholarship, 2024-2025
Herbert L. Costner Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, UW Sociology, 2022
Power Prize Outstanding Student Leaders Award for “A Peoples’ Landscape: Racism and Resistance at UW”, UW History, 2021
Best Performance in the Master’s Degree, UW Sociology, 2020
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UW Sociology 2020

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