Deniz P. Konuk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her research explores law’s relationship with senses and technologies of knowledge in trials for police violence. She examines the legal responses to audio-visual recordings of ‘excessive use of force’ in the context of Turkey and analyzes how legal frames establish what counts as evidence and what counts as state violence.
Areas of Interest
Law and senses; technology; state violence; regimes of visuality; policing.
Degrees
MA, Sociology, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
BA (Hons), Sociology, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
Recent Awards and Distinctions
| 2020 – 2021 | DAAD One-Year Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates (Visiting Scholar at University of Hamburg, Dept. of Social Sciences) |
| 2018 – 2019 | Ontario Graduate Scholarship |
| 2017 – 2018 | Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship |