For the Study of the History, Languages, and Cultures of Azerbaijan, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Emine Çakır
Lecturer in Turkish and Azerbaijani
Emine Çakir is Lecturer in Turkish at the University of Oxford. She has more than 25 years of experience teaching Turkish and other languages in Turkey and the UK, and is the author of numerous publications on teaching, language pedagogy and Turkish generally. She completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics/Language Pedagogy.
She taught at SOAS from 2007 until joining the Turkish Department at Oxford in 2013. She has won several awards for her teaching since then, including two Oxford Students' Union Teaching Awards in 2019 for Outstanding Tutor and Exceptional Feedback, and two Awards for Excellence from the Humanities Division in 2015 and 2019.