Deniz Coşan Eke

Deniz Cosan Eke (Dr. phil.) works as a post-doc researcher in the Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria. She received her BA and first MSc in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in Turkey. She completed second MA in International Relationship from Ankara University in Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in the Social and Cultural Anthropology from Ludwig-Maximillans University of Munich in Germany.

She is the author of "The Changing Leadership Roles of »Dedes« in the Alevi Movement: Ethnographic Studies on Alevi Associations in Turkey and Germany from the 1990s to the Present" (Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript, 2021). She is currently working on an edit book manuscript which explores the effects of migration on the religious groups and religious rituals.

She has also published scholarly articles and chapters on Alevi migration and Alevi movement in transnational context. Her scholarly interests include anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, identity, women and gender, religious leadership, migration, religious movements and Alevism.