Hazal Çorak
Anthropology
Hazal Çorak is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. She is a historical anthropologist of the Mediterranean. Her research explores the changing cartographies of steelmaking, recycling, and the overseas trade in metal scrap since the Second World War. By using archival and ethnographic methods she traces the afterlives of urban and industrial objects and infrastructures in a transnational framework, diverse modalities of destruction, and the rejuvenation of discarded metals into construction steel, the material backbone of urbanization worldwide. Hazal’s broader research interests include industrial and maritime anthropology, history of chemistry and metallurgy, empires and imperialism, and Mediterranean port cities. She holds a B.A. in Social and Political Sciences from Sabancı University, an M.A. in Critical and Cultural Studies from Boğaziçi University, and an M.A. in Anthropology from the City University of New York.