Deniz Coşan Eke received her BA and first MSc in Sociology from Middle East Technical University, Ankara in Turkey. She completed second MA in International Relationship from Ankara University in Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in the Social and Cultural Anthropology from Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in Germany. She worked and researched as a postdoc researcher in Alevi Theological Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria. She was a visiting scholar on gender, transnational migration, religious groups, and interfaith dialogue at the University of Roskilde, the University of Westminster, and the University of Cambridge. She is the author of “The Changing Gender Roles in the Perception of Two Cohorts: A Case Study in Ankara” (VDM Verlag, 2009) and “The Changing Leadership Roles of ‘Dedes’ in the Alevi Movement: Ethnographic Studies on Alevi Associations in Turkey and Germany from the 1990s to the Present” (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021). She is co-editor, “Migration, Religion, and Religious Groups (Transnational Press, London, 2023) and also one of the Guest co-editors of a forthcoming Special Issue in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism on “Entangled Ethnographies of Alevism in Turkey and Beyond” (SEN, 2025). She is a member of the manager committee of the EU-funded COST Action “Connecting theory and practical issues of migration and religious diversity” (COREnet), leading a working group exploring Migration and Religious diversity through the lenses of gender and age. Her scholarly interests include migration, religious transnationalism, religious diversity, interfaith dialogue, gender (women) equality, collective emotions , Alevis communities and Alevism.