Biography

Dr. Hale Inanoglu is a qualitative researcher focusing on how selves are made in the American religious landscape. Her dissertation titled “Gender and Diaspora in the Making of Pious Subjectivity” elucidates the processes and disciplining mechanisms though which women create a particular type of religious selfhood for different publics. Her current research at George Mason University explores the link between college students’ self-presentation on social media and their religious formation.

She teaches sociology at Marymount University as an adjunct professor.