• History

(Turkish History; Ancient Mediterranean History - Greek and Roman; Byzantine History, especially 10th-15th centuries; Medieval and Early Modern European History; Ottoman, Islamic, and Middle Eastern History; East Asian History; Modern and Contemporary History; Transregional Histories - Balkans, Iran, and Central Asia; History of Republican Era and Atatürk’s Reforms; Historical and Contemporary Realities of Türkiye from the 20th century to the present)

• Linguistics

Computational Linguistics (natural language processing, large language models, language and artificial intelligence)

Neurolinguistics (brain-based approaches to language processing and production; interdisciplinary research in cognitive science and neuroscience)

Theoretical Linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, and related interface studies)

Language Acquisition (first and second language acquisition; developmental approaches to language)

Sociolinguistics (language and migration, multilingualism, language policy, language and identity in local and global contexts)

• Philosophy

(Logic and Formal Philosophy; Epistemology; Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science; Moral and Applied Ethics; History of Philosophy - ancient and/or modern)

• Psychology

(Cognitive and Developmental Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics; Memory, Learning, and Perception; Experimental and Quantitative Research Methods)

• Sociology

(Demography; Quantitative and Computational Social Science Methods; Environmental and Rural Transformation Studies; Social Stratification and Inequality; Economic Sociology; Digital Sociology and Social Change)

• Translation and Interpreting Studies

(Conference and Community Interpreting; Translation Technologies, Localization, and AI-Driven Language Systems; Corpus-Based and Experimental Research Methods; Translation History and Sociology; Ethics and Accessibility in Translation)

• Turkish Language and Literature

(Old Turkic; Modern Turkish Linguistics; Diachronic and Philological Approaches to Turkish - across historical periods; Turkic Languages and Dialects; Historical Linguistics)

• Western Languages and Literature

(Comparative and Transnational Literary Studies - across periods and forms; Literary Theory and Criticism; World Literatures and Global Literary Circulation; Literature in Intellectual and Social History; Religion and Literature; Sacred Texts in Western Literature)