Postdoctoral researcher focusing on queer and decolonial perspectives on AI within Humlab.
Onur Kilic is a postdoctoral researcher at Humlab, Umeå University. His research interests include queer and decolonial perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI), queer networked activism, decolonial theory, assemblage epistemologies and multi-sited ethnography. He holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Lund University, Sweden, and defended his doctoral dissertation titled Lubunya Assemblages: Queer Networked Resistances in Turkey in 2024. He is currently part of a transdisciplinary research project AI Drag: Binary Systems and Fluid Identities at Humlab in Umeå, funded by the Kempe Foundation, with a focus on queer perspectives on Motion Capture (MoCap) technology.
I have been teaching in subjects such as transdisciplinarity in gender studies, queer and transgender feminism, homonationalism, and digital ethnography. I have previous teaching experience in MA in Gendering Practices, and BA in Global Studies at University of Gothenburg; also at the Department of Gender Studies, and MSc in Social Studies of Gender at the Graduate School at Lund University.