Selen Güler is the 2025-26 Marilyn J. Gittell Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is a sociologist who studies economic redistribution, social movements, and institutional change, with a focus on urban governance and higher education.

Selen’s current book project asks how Seattle taxed the rich after a sequence of attempted reforms. She traces how broader shifts in capitalism and urban politics shaped local redistributive struggles and helped produce the city’s most progressive business tax to date, earmarking most of the revenue for affordable housing. This research has been supported by the Center for Engaged Scholarship.

Selen earned an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington in Seattle. They also hold a BA in Sociology with a minor in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Selen can be reached at sguler@gc.cuny.edu.