Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna, 2023

Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna, 2013

Cultural Anthropology, New York University, 2011

Dr. Ezgican Özdemir received her BA degree from New York University at the Department of Anthropology in 2011. She completed her master’s degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Budapest in 2013, and earned her PhD from the same university in 2023. For her doctoral dissertation, titled “Pipe Dreams on a ‘Half-island’: Water, Authority, Belonging in Northern Cyprus,” she conducted ethnographic and archival research in northern Cyprus. She was a visiting research fellow at Center for Policy Studies, CEU in 2018 and at IWM – Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in 2021. Ezgi’s research focuses on water politics, infrastructure, the climate crisis, state-society relations, and political geography in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Latest Publications:

• Scales of exception: water infrastructure, place, and ‘half-island’ in Cyprus, Ethnos, Volume 90, 2025 - Issue 2: Megaprojects (July 2023): Pages 185-203
• “Time to protect Kyrenia”: defending the right to landscape in north Cyprus, Book chapter in Commoning the City: Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics edited by Derya Özkan & Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç, Routledge, 2020
• “Infrastructuring Geographies: Histories and Presents in and of the Middle East and North Africa” Co-editor and co-author with Amina Nolte, Issue 10, Middle East: Topics and Arguments Journal (META) - 2018

Political anthropology, environmental and water politics, sovereignty and belonging, infrastructure studies, Eastern Mediterranean

ANTH 201 History of Anthropological Thought

ANTH 203 Research Methods