#  Harvard Gazette: Sophia Zervas profile 

 





October 22, 2026

 

 

   ![Sophia Zervas on campus](/sites/g/files/omnuum12086/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-10/090826_Sophia_Zervas_18_0.jpg?itok=3Ekt6CxA) 

 

PhD candidate in ethnomusicology Sophia Zervas was recently profiled in *The Harvard Gazette* as part of their "Life-Work" series. Zervas is a scholar of music and politics in 21st-century Türkiye whose dissertation explores state cultural policy under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

[Read the full profile on the *Gazette* website](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/10/making-music-is-magic-understanding-it-is-even-better/).

Photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell



 

 

 



 

 

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