Biography

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey. She holds a PhD in U.S. History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and specializes in Women’s Studies with an emphasis on the history of medicine, sexuality, reproduction, and transnational feminism. Dr. Tunc has published extensively in this field, and her work can be found in journals such as Dynamis, Women’s History Review, Journal of Women’s History, Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, and European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. She is the co-editor of seven books, and the author of two, including Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850–1980 (VDM 2008). Dr. Tunc is also a member of the editorial advisory board of Medical History; Vice President of the American Studies Association of Turkey; and a member of the European Association for American Studies Women’s Network Steering Committee. Between 2007 and 2011, she served on the Executive Board of Hacettepe University’s Women’s Research and Implementation Center (HUWRIC), which operates under the auspices of the Faculty of Medicine. In 2015, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center for Bioethics and Public Policy, where she conducted research on fetal surgery.

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