Zeynel Gül, PhD
Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Scholar
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: He/Him
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About
Zeynel Gül is a Bridge to Faculty postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Anthropology at UIC. Gül has completed his doctoral studies in cultural anthropology at Johns Hopkins University where he has specialized in medical anthropology, anthropology of law, and science and technology studies. Gül’s book manuscript, tentatively titled, The Violence of Evidence: Law, Medicine and the Right to Worker Health in Turkey, chronicles the stories of patients with silicosis – a chronic lung disease caused by inhalation of dust particles at the workplace. The Violence of Evidence ethnographically explores how a state-led expansion of access to medical care for workers in Turkey shapes health litigation in courts, revealing the intertwining of law and healthcare governance in producing uncertainties in the medical field. Gül’s research recasts anthropological understandings of disease ontology and patient experience by investigating the embeddedness of law and governance in the production of medical knowledge. Gül authored and co-authored several articles in American Ethnologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Science, Technology and Human Values, SSRC Items Magazine and the Journal of Occupational Health and Safety (TMA).
In 2020, Gül joined a multi-country research team to study the COVID-19 pandemic’s financial and health-related challenges for working-class households. Gül teaches courses on environmental toxicity, medical anthropology, and legal anthropology. Before joining UIC, Gül also completed the certificate program at the Environmental and Occupational Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Education
PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, 2023
MA in Sociology from Boğaziçi University, 2015