Umut Ozguc

Dr. Umut Ozguc is a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Umut is a critical International Relations (IR) scholar. Her work engages with critical border studies, mainly with bordering technologies, mobility inequalities and injustices. Her work on borders was published in leading journals including Security Dialogue, International Studies Review, Geopolitics, International Political Sociology, Political Geography, and Review of International Studies. She is the co-founder/ co-convenor of Australian Critical Border Studies Network. She is also the Program Leader for Digital Border and AI Adaptation, at the Centre for Applied AI at Macquarie University. She acted as a co-chair of Women’s Caucus of Australian Political Science Association from 2024 to 2026. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia on her project on “Posthuman Borders” (2019-2020). Her project, "Mobility injustices, racialised bodies, and Australia’s pandemic borders", is the winner of 2022 Australian National University, Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry Early Career Research Grant. She is a member of the ANZSOC Borders group at Border Criminologies.