Derya Özkaya is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES) at the University of Graz. Her academic research interests are primarily centered on the politics of affect and collective emotions, protest movements, transformative grassroots politics, urban movements, collective memory, political ethnography, and contemporary politics of Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the Otto-Suhr-Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin.