Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

• History

(Ancient Mediterranean History - Greek and Roman; Medieval, Early Modern and 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 the Republican Era)

• Linguistics

(Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Theoretical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; 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)

• 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; Folklore Studies; 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; Religion and Literature; Sacred Texts in Western Literature)