Berkley Center

Betül Avcı is an associate professor of religious studies at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul. Her academic research includes comparative theology, Christian-Muslim relations, cultural-religious translation, and alternative contemporary spiritualities. She is currently working on an oral history project on her family between the Late Ottoman and Early Republican eras, a monograph on Christian-Muslim relations, as well as an edited book on alternative spiritualities in contemporary Turkey. She holds a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University.