Oğuz Can OK graduated from Bilkent University with a BA in Political Science and Public Administration in 2016. In 2018, he received his MA in Political Science from Bilkent University with his thesis entitled, "Rethinking the Relations between the State and Civil Society in Turkey: An Analysis on Migrant Health" and started his doctoral studies at Sabancı University Gender Studies Program in the same year. During his undergraduate and graduate studies, he took part in various academic research projects conducted in the fields of gender, migration and civil society; as well as in projects of non-governmental organizations in Turkey. He conducted his doctoral research on the relationship between food and gender within the context of critical studies on men and masculinities. He received his PhD degree in 2023 with his thesis titled "Doing, undoing, and cooking gender: Mapping the masculinities of white-collar men in the home kitchen". He is also a member of the Critical Masculinity Studies Initiative (EEİİ-ICSM).