Aslı Vatansever is a sociologist of work and social stratification with a focus on precarious labor and labor activism in academia. Currently, she is a research fellow at Bard College Berlin. Her work on academic labor activism has appeared in prominent outlets in the field of labor studies such as Work, Employment and Society. Her third monograph with the title At the Margins of Academia: Exile, Precariousness, and Subjectivity came out by Brill in 2020. Recently, she co-edited a volume Academic Freedom and Precarity in the Global North: Free as a Bird (with Aysuda Kölemen, Routledge, 2022).