An incoming student in the Department of Sociology, Gokhan Irfanoglu received two B.A.s from the University of Bosphorus/ Bogaziçi in Turkey, and an M.Sc. in Political Science from the London School of Economics. Irfanoglu’s master’s thesis considers the disruptive capacity of the disability rights movement in the Turkish Republic from a broad-based theoretical perspective. At Berkeley he intends to continue his work in philosophy, political theory, and contemporary sociological theory to provide a richly theorized account of the sociology of the disabled condition in Turkey.