Özge Savaș
Assistant Professor
Biography
Özge Savaş holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on understanding how people build interdependence, and collective care and dignity amidst state violence and colonialism. Using an anti-colonial and intersectional feminist lens, her most recent work examines mobility and gender justice in female headed Syrian and Afghan refugee households, in migrant justice and transnational feminist movements. Her research has been published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Feminism & Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Publications
Savaş, Ö. (2026) Kindred narrative inquiry: Cultivating trust and interdependence as anti-colonial feminist praxis for the unsettled who needs translation. Qualitative Psychology.
Savaş, Ö.* & Dutt, A.* (2025) Just Mobilities: Using Psychological Science to Inform the Future of Migration Policy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322251399151
Savaş, Ö., Duncan, L., Smith, H., & Stewart, A.J. (2024) The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F Word: Transnational feminism and its discontents. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy,1(31), https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12404
Savaş, Ö.*, & Dutt, A.* (2023) Decolonial and intersectional feminist psychology for the future of (forced) migration and refugee resettlement. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100124
Savaş, Ö.*, Klein, V.*, & Conley, T. (2023) Epistemic exclusion and invisibility in sex research: Revisiting the WEIRD dichotomy. The Journal of Sex Research, 1–4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2208091
Savaş, Ö., Caulfield, S., Smith, H.**, House, M.**, & Stewart, A. J. (2022) Vulnerability and empowerment on the ground: Activist perspectives from the Global Feminisms Project. Feminism & Psychology, 1-18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221139135
Klein, V.*, Savaş, Ö.*, & Conley, T. (2022) How WEIRD and androcentric is sex research? Global Inequities in Study Populations. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1918050
Savaş, Ö., Greenwood, R. M., Blankenship, B. T., Stewart, A. J., & Deaux, K. (2021) All immigrants are not alike: Intersectionality matters in views of immigrant groups. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 9(1), 86-104. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.5575
Blankenship, B. T., Davis, T., Areguin, M. A., Savaş, Ö., Winter, D. & Stewart, A. J. (2021) Trust and tribulation: Racial identity centrality, institutional trust, and support for candidates in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy. http://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12256.
Savaş, Ö. & Stewart, A. J. (2019) Alternative pathways to activism: Intersections of social and personal pasts in the narratives of women’s rights activists. Qualitative Psychology, 6(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.5575
Blankenship, B., Savaş, Ö., Frederick, J., & Stewart, A. J. (2018) Piecing together the American voting puzzle: How voters’ personalities and judgments of issue importance mattered in the 2016 Presidential Election. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 18(1), 172-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12157
Blankenship, B., Frederick, J., Savaş, Ö., Montgomery, S., & Stewart, A. J. (2017) Privilege and marginality: How group identification and personality predict right- and left-wing political activism. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy 17(1), 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12132
*denotes equal contribution