Özlem Altan-Olcay has a PhD degree from New York University, Department of Politics. She is an associate professor of Political Science in the Department of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her primary research interests include gender and development, citizenship studies and transnational networks. Some of her recent articles have appeared in Development and Change, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Feminist Economics, Gender, Place and Culture, International Feminist Journal of Politics,Sociology, Social Politics, and Women’s Studies International Forum.

She has recently co-authored The American Passport: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism, published by Penn Press (2020).