Birsen Talay Keşoğlu graduated from Boğaziçi University, Turkey, with a BA in Philosophy. She earned her MA in History at Boğaziçi University and received her PhD from the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at the same university with a dissertation entitled “Socialist Women’s Organisations in Turkey 1975–1980.” She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Tarih ve Toplum (History and Society) between the years 1998–2003 and worked for İletişim Publishers as an editor of books on historical and political research and memoirs. Her articles have appeared in several journals and books. Her published works are on the late Ottoman period, Turkish modern history, women’s history, women’s movements, oral history, women’s studies and gender. Her latest book Türk Kadını 1918–1919 (Turkish Woman, 1918–1919) was published in 2010 October by the Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation, Istanbul. She has been teaching at Kadir Has University, Istanbul since 2004.