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Serap Kavas

Serap Kavas

Serap Kavas is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Before moving to UTRGV, she was a visiting scholar on a fellowship from the Institute of International Education (IIE) at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University, where she engaged in research and teaching at both the undergraduate and master’s levels. Her research interests are centered around the exploration of family demography, gender, and migration. Kavas’ research approach aims to analyze social inequality and change, pose new questions, and inform policy decisions. Her work has appeared in Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, Middle Eastern Studies, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Publications

Kavas, Serap, and Arland Thornton. 2022. “Distinguishing between Old and New Developmental Idealism and among Beliefs about Correlation, Causation, and Expectations: Beliefs about Family Change and Development in Turkey." Sociology of Development; doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sod.2021.0030

Kavas, Serap, and Arland Thornton. Developmental Idealism and Beliefs About Marriage and Fertility in Turkey. Population Research and Policy Review. 39, 47–75 (2020).

Kavas, Serap. 2015. "'Wardrobe Modernity': Western Attire as a Tool of Modernization in Turkey." Middle Eastern Studies, 51(4): 515-539.

Kavas, Serap. 2014. "Discourses Of Demographic Change And Population Policies In Turkey In The Twentieth Century." Demográfia, 57(5): 91–112.

Kavas, Serap, and Arland Thornton. 2013. "Adjustment and Hybridity in Turkish Family Change: Perspectives from Developmental Idealism." Journal of Family History, 38(2): 223-241.

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