Her areas of interest include gender; sexualities; queer, feminist and social theory; globalization and transnationality; cultural sociology and epistemology – with particular focus on Turkey. Savci came to Northwestern through a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) and was affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the Gender Studies Program. She is completing her book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam.