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Nurşen Gürboğa received her PhD from Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History in 2005. Her dissertation "Mine Workers, the State and War, Zonguldak Coal Basin as the Site of Contest: 1920–1947" is on the contentious relations between the Kemalist single party rule, the coal workers and the companies, with a special emphasis on the contestation of the compulsory mine workers against the oppressive labor policies of the ruling elite, and the grassroots activism in Zonguldak coal field during World War II. Gürboğa''s dissertation was published by the Osmanlı Bank Research Center in 2009, and her article "Compulsory Mine Work: The Single-party Regime and Zonguldak Coal Field as the Site of Contention, 1940–1947" was published in the International Review of Social History (2009). Her research interests cover the history of the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey, labor history and social movements. Since 2003, Gürboğa has taught Ottoman and Turkish history, politics, as well as gender in Turkish society at Marmara University''s Department of Political Science and International Relations.