Gülşah Şenkol is a historian of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, specializing in comparative women’s history. Currently, she is a lecturer in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) at Koç University. She holds a PhD in History from the Ohio State University and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the American University in Cairo (AUC), and Princeton University. Prior to her appointment at Koç University, she held postdoctoral fellowships at ANAMED, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and Orient-Institut Istanbul. Gülşah has offered a variety of courses at both Ohio State and Koç Universities in the literature and histories of women, gender, and sexuality in the Middle East. Her current book project investigates the interaction between organized women’s movements in Turkey and Egypt and their connection to global women’s activism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.