Hande Eslen-Ziya (born 1976) is a Turkish-born, Norway-based sociologist and psychologist.
She is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Populism, Anti-Gender and Democracy Research Group at the University of Stavanger in Norway.
Her research has been published in Gender, Work and Organisation, Emotion, Space and Society, Social Movement Studies, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Leadership, Men and Masculinities, and Social Politics, as well as in other internationally recognized journals.
She earned a BSc (1997) and an MSc (1999) in psychology at Boğaziçi University, a PhD in sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008) and a habilitation by the Turkish Higher Education Council (2015).
She is known for her work on how right-wing populist ideologies such as the anti-gender movement create an alternative "troll science"[2] discourse that stands in opposition to recognized scholarship.