Ipek A. Celik Rappas

İpek A. Çelik Rappas is Associate Professor of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University, Istanbul. She is the author of In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in European Media and Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025). Her research, supported by grants such as the ERC Advanced Grant WALLS2BRIDGES, focuses on the intersections of media, incarceration, race, and urban space. She investigates how carceral communities become media producers, and explores sustainable, non-extractivist modes of media production across Europe and Turkey.