Biray Kolluoğlu has completed her undergraduate studies in Middle East Technical University in 1989, acquired her master’s degree in Sociology from Lancaster University in 1994, and her doctoral degree in Sociology from Binghamton University in 2002. Since then she is working as a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University. Kolluoğlu has spent a year in Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin as a post-doctoral fellow in 2004. Her areas of interest include urban sociology, sociology of space and memory, and historical sociology. She has written articles and edited books on social movements in Turkey, urban transformation of the early twenty-first century Istanbul, Eastern Mediterranean port cities in the nineteenth century, Izmir’s trajectory of change from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish nation-state.