K. Zeynep Sarıaslan was assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, between October 2016 and June 2018. She submitted her doctoral thesis on gender and development to the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, where she also worked as a researcher, assistant, and external lecturer. She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Her postdoctoral research on transnational politics of representation is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.