Zeynep Gülşah Çapan is a Lecturer at the chair group of International Relations at the University of Erfurt. Her research focuses on critical theories of international relations, history and historiography, sociology of knowledge and postcolonial and decolonial thought. Her book Re-Writing International Relations: History and Theory Beyond Eurocentrism in Turkey was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016. She has published in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Review of International Studies and has contributed several chapters to edited volumes.