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AYŞE PARLA Curriculum Vitae
Department of Anthropology Boston University 232 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215
(609) 937-4252
EDUCATION
2005 New York University, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
1995 Harvard University, B.A. in Social Studies, magna cum laude
1991 Robert College High School, Istanbul, Highest Honors
EMPLOYMENT
2018-present Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
2012-2018 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University, Istanbul
2005-2012 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sabancı University, Istanbul
HONORS AND AWARDS
2020 Association of Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, Honorable Mention for Pracarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey (Stanford UP, 2019).
2011 Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), Exceptional Young Scholar Award
2010 Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University
2009 TUBITAK (The Technological and Scientific Research Council of Turkey)
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2004 Sylvia Forman Prize, Association of Feminist Anthropology. Best graduate paper.
2000 Feminist Studies Journal Award for best article published by a graduate student: “The Honor of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey.”
1999 Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Student Paper Prize for the essay “The ‘Honor’ of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey.”
1998 Kay Pin Award for academic achievement, New York University
1995 Honors in Social Studies for Senior Thesis: "The Significance of the Women's Shelter in the Turkish Context." Harvard University.
1993-1995 Harvard College Scholarship and Agassiz Certificate of Merit for academic achievement of highest distinction.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020-2021 Emerging Scholars Grant for “Migration Matters: Ethnicity, Identity and Politics Across Borders,” with Nancy Smith-Hefner, Boston University.
2016-2018 Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton. Member (2016-2017), Visitor (2017-2018)
2014 International Research Visiting Fellowship, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, University of British Columbia.
2011 - 2014 TUBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) research grant: “Beyond Europeanization: An Anthropological Inquiry into the regulation of the Migration Regime in Turkey.”
2009 - 2012 TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey) three-year Career Grant: “Legalization Strategies of Labor Migrants from Bulgaria.”
2007 - 2008 TUBITAK Collaborative Research Grant, Principal Investigator: “Forms of orga- nization among new migrants: A comparative analysis of Bulgarian Turks, Iraqi Turkmens and Moldavians in Turkey,” with Prof. Mine Eder (Political Science) and Dr. Didem Danis (Sociology).
2003 - 2004 Marianne Lehner Rothe and Florence Edna Rowe Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.
2003 - 2004 Dissertation Fellowship, International Center for Advanced Studies, Project on the “Cold War as Global Conflict,” New York University.
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2003 - 2004 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University.
2002 Regional Associate Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, NEXUS.
2001 - 2002 Dissertation Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation.
2001 - 2002 Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council.
2001 - 2002 Annette B. Weiner Fellowship, New York University
1996 - 2001 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University.
1999 - 2000 Predissertation Grant, Institute of Turkish Studies, GeorgetownUniversity.
1999 Ford Foundation Gender/Area Studies Summer Research Grant, NYU.
1994 Ford Program Research Fellowship, Harvard University
1994 Dean’s Summer Thesis Research Grant, Harvard University.
1991 - 1995 Agassiz Scholarship, Radcliffe College.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
2019 Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Reviews of Precarious Hope:
Christofis, Nikos. (2021) Review of Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. February 2, 2021.
Açıksöz, S. C. (2020). Book Review: Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey. Ayşe Parla, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). International Journal of Middle East Studies 52(3), 601-603.
Tolay, Juliette (2020). Book Review: Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey. International Migration Review. First Published January 3, 2020
Ferrara, Carol (2020) Editors Pic- Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey in EuropeNOWJournal. Council for European Studies (CES), January 2020. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/01/15/january-2020-2/
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Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
2020 “Revisiting ‘Honor’ through Migrant Vulnerabilities in Turkey.” History and Anthropology 31(1): 84-104.
2019 “Critique without a Politics of Hope.” In A Time for Critique, edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard Harcourt. New York: Columbia University Press.
Reviewed by: Ticktin, Miriam. 2020. Imagining Otherwise: On “A Time for Critique.” Los Angeles Review of Books. April 3, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/imagining-otherwise-on-a-time-for-critique/
2019 “When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth,” In Deepening Divides: How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World edited by Didier Fassin. London: Pluto Press.
2016 “Property, Dispossession and Citizenship in Turkey, or, The history of the Gezi Uprising starts in the Surp Hagop Armenian Cemetery,” with Ceren Özgül. Public Culture 28 (3): 617-653.
2015 “‘For us, migration is ordinary’: Post-1989 labour migration from Bulgaria to Turkey,” in Migration in the Southern Balkans: From Ottoman Territory to Globalized Nation States, eds. Hans Vermeulen, Riki van Boeschoten, Martin Baldwin- Edwards (eds.). IMISCOE Book Series: Springer.
2011 “Labor migration, ethnic kinship, and the conundrum of citizenship in Turkey. Citizenship Studies 15(3-4): 457-470.
2011 “Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights Claims.” Differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 22(1): 64-89.
2009 “Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria.” American Ethnologist 36 (4): 750-767.
2009 “Broken Lines of Il/legality and the Reproduction of State Sovereignty: The Impact of Visa Policies on Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria,” with Zeynep Kaslı. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 34 (2): 203-227.
2009 “Nafile Soydaşlık: Irak ve Bulgaristan Türkleri Örneğinde Göçmen, Dernek ve Devlet,”
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[Ethnic Kinship in Vain: Turkish Migrants from Iraq and from Bulgaria, Migrant Associations and the State],with Didem Danış. Toplum ve Bilim (Science and Society) 114: 131-158.
2007 “Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin? Post-1990s Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey.” International Migration 45 (3): 157-181. (reprint in Bulgarian Folkore 2: 49- 69, 2009)
2006 “Longing, Belonging and Locations of Homeland among Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria.” Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 6(4): 543-557. (reprint in Bulgarian in How to think about the Balkans: Culture, Region, Identities, ed. A. Kiossev, Next Page Publications, 2009).
2003 “Marking Time along the Bulgarian-Turkish Border,” Ethnography 4(4): 561-575.
2001 “The ‘Honor’ of the State: Virginity Examinations in Turkey,” Feminist Studies 27:1 (Spring), 65-89.
Invited short contributions, encyclopedia entries and interviews
2020. “Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey: New Texts Out Now.” Jadaliyya. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40632/Ayşe-Parla,-Precarious-Hope- Migration-and-the-Limits-of-Belonging-in-Turkey-New-Texts-Out-Nowadaliyya. Solicited interview by academic online journal Jadaliyya on my book for their New Texts Out series.
2020. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Podcast Series, Buffet Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University. https://keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/events-programming/keyman- podcast-series.html Invited speaker for the Keyman Modern Turkish Podcast Series
2017 “The Complicity of Hope.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Series on Emergency for Turkish Democracy. Responses to the Constitutional Referendum, curated by Jennifer Curtis and Heath Cabot. https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2017/05/03/the- complicity- of-hope/
Selected for included in Open Anthropology: Han, Sallie and Jason Antrosio. “The Editors’ Note: Hope.” Volume 8, Issue 2. Open Anthropology/American Anthropological Association. July 2020. https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/OAArticleDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=25812
2017 Molly Fee Interviews Ayse Parla. Center for the Study of International Migration, UCLA. https://international.ucla.edu/Institute/article/187171
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2013. "Protest and the Limits of the Body." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology. Series on An Impromtu Uprising, curated by Yael Navaro-Yashin and Umut Yildirim. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/protest-and-the-limits-of-the-body
2012 “Bulgaria, migration, late-19th century to present,” with Maria Stoilkova, in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, ed. Immanuel Ness, Wiley-Blackwell. Solicited encyclopedia entry; this publication has appeared before entering position at BU)
2006 “Virginity: Turkey.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Ed. Suad Joseph. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_EWICCOM_0209h First published online: 2009 Solicited encyclopedia entry; this publication has appeared before entering position at BU)k
2005 “Honor: Turkey and the Caucasus.” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures., Ed. Suad Joseph. Leiden: E.J. Brill. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872- 5309_ewic_EWICCOM_0085c> First published online: 2009. (Solicited encyclopedia entry.
2020 “Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey: New Texts Out Now.” Jadaliyya. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40632/Ayşe-Parla,-Precarious- Hope-Migration-and-the-Limits-of-Belonging-in-Turkey-New-Texts-Out-Nowadaliyya
2020 Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Podcast Series, Buffet Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University. https://keyman.buffett.northwestern.edu/events-programming/keyman-podcast- series.html
2017 “The Complicity of Hope.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Curated Series on Emergency for Turkish Democracy. Responses to the Constitutional Referendum. https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2017/05/03/the-complicity- of-hope/
2013 "Protest and the Limits of the Body." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology, https://culanth.org/fieldsights/protest-and-the-limits-of-the-body
2012 “Bulgaria, migration, late-19th century to present,” with Maria Stoilkova in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, ed. Immanuel Ness, Wiley-Blackwell.
2006 “Virginity: Discourses and Practices: Turkey.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
2005 Women, Gender and Honor in Turkey and the Caucuses.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
WORK IN PROGRESS
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“Hamlet after Genocide: Tehlirian’s Ghost, Courtroom Politics and Empirical Fabulation” Submitted to Comparative Studies in Society and History on January 2, 2021
Silence and Rancor: Ghosts, Cemeteries and Afterlives of the Armenian Genocide. Book project.
INVITED LECTURES
April 2020 “Precarious Hope and the Limits of Migrant Belonging in Turkey.” Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. (postponed due to COVID)
March 2020 “Shielding Hope, Killing Hope, and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey.” Department of Anthropology & Turkish Studies. Columbia University, New York.
Feb 2020 “Precarious Hope and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey.” Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, Boston.
Feb 2020 “The Ghost in the Courtroom: Genocide, Justice, and a Speculative Reading of the Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian.” Keynote for the workshop on “Afterlives of Catastrophes: ‘Western Armenia’ in Comparative Perspective. Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Nov 2019 “Shielding Hope, Killing Hope: Entitlement, Precarity and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey.” Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean Studies Forum (co-organized with the Department of Anthropology), Stanford University, Palo Alto.
Oct 2019 “Precarious Hope and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey.” Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series (co-organized with the Watson Institute, Center for Middle East Studies) Brown University, Providence, RI.
Jan 2018 “The Politics of Hope and its Refusals.” Keynote for Conference on the “Politics of Emotion in Turkey and its Connected Geographies.” London School of Economics, London.
Nov 2017 “Legal Differentiation in the “Illegal” Labor Market and Delimiting the Concept of Precarity.” Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas, Austin
Nov 2017 “Legal Differentiation in the “Illegal” Labor Market and Delimiting the Concept of Precarity.” UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, University of California at Los Angeles.
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April 2017 “Hope, Migrants and the Political.” Political Science Forum, Vassar College.
Nov. 2016 “Shades of Kinship and Migration Governance in Turkey.” Presented in the Con- ference on “The Humanitarian Condition: Refugees, Migrants, and the Politics of Humanitarianism in the Middle East.” Hosted by the Hagop Kevorkian Near East- ern Studies, New York University
Oct 2016 “Precarious Hope, Migrant Legalization and the Limits of Affect Theory.” presented at the Monday Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. (Lecture has been selected for publication in the Occasional Papers of the School of Social Sci- ence, Institute for Advanced Study.)
Sep 2014 “Spaces of Education, States of Ruination and Survival.” Public lecture, hosted by the Department of Anthropology and Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia.
Feb 2014 “Armenian Migrant Children in Turkey: Access to Education and States of Excep- tion in a Postgenocidal Society.” Hosted by the Armenian Studies Program and the Department of History, Michigan University.
Jan 2014 “Armenian Migrant Children in Turkey: Access to Education and States of Exception in a Postgenocidal Society.” Hosted by Green College, University of British Columbia.
Feb 2013 “Labor migration of ‘ethnic kin’ from Bulgaria to Turkey and the politics of rela- tive privilege.” Sociocultural Anthropology Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
May 2010 EUROMed meeting, “Migratory Flows in Turkey.” Istanbul.
March 2010 “The Instrumentalization of Ethnicity: A comparative analysis based on the experiences of Turkish migrants from Iraq and Bulgaria.” With Didem Danıs. Atatürk Institute Friday Seminars, Bogazici University.
Feb 2009 “Inclusive Exclusion and the Reproduction of State Sovereignty,” Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia University.
PANEL ORGANIZATIONS
Nov 2020 Co-organizer, with Sophia Stamapolou Robbins (Barnard) Co-organizer (with Sophia Stamapulou Robbins) of the roundtable on anti-Black racism in the Middle East. Middle East Section, co-sponsored by the Association of Black Anthropologists. Raising our Voices, American Anthropological Association.
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Nov 2016 “Claiming Evidence, Reclaiming Emotions.” Panel co-organizer, with Lori Allen. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.
Nov 2016 “We Will not be Party to this Crime! Academic Freedoms and the Criminalization of Academics in Turkey.” Co-organized with Lori Allen. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.
Dec 2014 “Migrant children, education and structural violence in China, Malaysia, Russia, Turkey and the US.” Panel co-organizer, with Alexia Bloch. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Nov 2013 “Of Plants, Political Movements and Humans: Exploring Multiple Meanings of Genealogy.” Panel Chair. American Anthropological Association, Chicago.
Nov 2010 “Rights Discourse in the Middle East.” Panel co- organizer. with Ceren Ozgul. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.
WORKSHOP and CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Nov 2018 “Crisis, Critique and the Politics of Hope.” Panel on “Legacies of Conflict in Crisis,” Organized by Olga Demetriou and Elizabeth Kirtsoglou. American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA.
Nov 2018 “Circumscribing Moves on an Expanding Concept: Precarity.” Roundtable on the “Anthropology in a Precarious Present, Middle East Association Section, with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Didier Fassin, Ghassan Hage, Miriam Ticktin & Carol Mc Granahan. Organized by Fadi Bardawil. American Anthropological Association, Washington DC.
March 2017 “On Hope, Migration Governance and the Political.” Presented at the conference on `Provocations of Contemporary Refugee Migration.” University of Florida.
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Nov 2016 “Precarious Hope and Migrant Legalization in Turkey.” Presented in the panel “Claiming Evidence, Reclaiming Emotions.” American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.
May 2015 “School Ruins, Minority Education and Representability.” Presented in the work- shop on “Encountering the Past in Turkey.” Institute of Turkish Studies, London School of Economics, London.
Dec 2014 “Spaces of Education, States of Ruination and Armenian Migrant Children in Tur- key.” Presented in the panel “Migrant children, education and structural violence in China, Malaysia, Russia, Turkey and the US.” American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Jan 2013 “The Affect and Politics of Relative Privilege.” Presented in the workshop on “Militant Research,” Goldsmith University, London.
April 2012 “Cruel Optimism and relative privilege in the Turkish legal context.” Presented in the panel on “Protest and law in the ostensibly non-revolutionary Middle East.” American Ethnological Society, New York.
Nov 2010 “Exceptional situations or mundane exceptions: Killability and relative privilege in the Turkish legal context.” Presented in the panel on “Rights Discourse in the Middle East.” American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.
Dec 2009 “Post1989 Turkish migrants from Bulgaria and the Configurations of Ethnic Kinship in Turkey.” Presented in the panel “The End/s of Transnationalism's after Socialism: Practices and Re-imaginations of Relatedness.” American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.
Jan 2009 “The 'Inclusive Exclusion' of Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria.” Invited work- shop on “Migration in the Neoliberal Age.” Center for European Studies, Univer- sity of Florida.
Feb 2009 “The Inclusive Exclusion of Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria.” Conference on “All about Turkish Migrations.” Kadir Has University, Istanbul.
Nov 2008 “Post-Soviet Migrant Labor to Turkey at the Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity and Legal Status,” with Mine Eder. Conference on “Gender Studies in Turkey: In- equalities, Struggles and Advances.” Koc University, Istanbul.
Nov 2008 “Claims of Belonging and the Inclusive Exclusion of Turkish Immigrants
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from Bulgaria.” Invited workshop on “Rethinking Citizenship,” Max Planck Insti- tute for Social Anthropology, Halle.
June 2008 “Hierarchies of Otherness.” 1st Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop on “Migrations, Connections, Perspectives: Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions in the Twentieth Century,” Sabanci University, Istanbul.
Nov 2007 “The Shifting Signifier and the Anxieties of the ‘Turkish’ self.” Presented in the panel “On Public Figures and Political Culture.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington D.C.
June 2007 “Turkish Immigrants from Bulgaria and postsocialist nostalgia on the other side of the border.” Conference on “Thinking through Turkey: Theorizing the Political,” Cambridge University, Cambridge.
Nov 2006 “Immigrant women from Bulgaria at the edges of community and propriety.” Pre- sented in the panel “Gender-based violence.” MESA Annual Meeting, Boston.
Sep 2006 “The moral economy of irregular labor migration from Bulgaria to Turkey,” Invit- ed workshop on “Interrogating Diaspora,” 9th Biennial Conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, Bristol.
Dec 2005 “Irregular Workers or Ethnic Kin: Post Nineties Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey,” presented at the IMILCO conference on “Irregular Migration, Informal Labor and Community in Europe,” Istanbul.
June 2005 “Locating the Turkish Homeland: Bulgarian Turkish return migration in transna- tional perspective,” Presented at the Oxford Symposium on “Transnationalism in South Eastern Europe,” St. Anthony’s College, Oxford.
June 2004 “Memories of Communism among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria,” Second International NEXUS Conference on Balkans and Globalization, Central European University, Budapest.
Apr 2004 “Negotiations of Labor, Honor and the Communist Legacy among Turkish immi- grants from Bulgaria.” International Center for Advanced Studies, Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict, New York University.
Apr 2003 “Racial Designations and Bulgarian Turkish Border Crossings” presented in the panel on “Migrations of Race in the Middle East,” American Ethnological Society, Providence.
July 2000 “The Disciplines and the Disciples of the State.” Presented in the panel on “Rep- resentations of the State in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey,” British Society for Middle East Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge.
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TEACHING
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Boston University) Urban Anthropology (Boston University) Anthropology of Emotion (Boston University) Anthropology of Turkey and the Middle East (Boston University) Migration, (Im)Mobilities and Precarity (Boston University)
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies (Sabancı University) Social Theory (Sabancı University) Migration and Citizenship (Sabancı University) Anthropology of the Body (Sabancı University) Anthropology of Europe (Sabanci University) Local Cultures, Global Forces (Sabancı University) Gender and Sexuality in Turkey and the Middle East (Sabancı University)
Co-taught courses:
Epistemological Foundations of Cultural Analysis & Cultural Analysis Methods Workshop, the sequential core requirement for the M.A. program in Cultural Studies, co-taught with Prof. Dr. Sibel Irzık. Taught since 2008.
Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations, Summer 2014, Harvard-Sabancı Summer School, co- taught with Prof. Dr. J. Bhabha, Harvard Law School and School of Public Health.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Sept. 2020- : Faculty Council Sept. 2020- University Council Nov 2020- : Committee on Equity and Inclusion Jan 2021- June 2021: Subcomittee on Calendar of the Anti Racist Working Group, Tim Longman
2019- present: Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships (GRAF) committee member. Boston University.
2019-present: Member of the Social Science curriculum committee. Boston University.
2018—present: Organizer of the annual Campagna- Kerven Lecture Series on Modern Turkey. Boston University.
2018-present: Chair of the Campagna-Kerven graduate student fellowship committee. Boston University.
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2014-2016 University Research Council. Sole representative from the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Sabancı University.
2014-2016 University Internal Grants Committee Member, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences sole representative.
2016 Chair of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award Jury. 2014 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series, Founding Committee Member
DEPARTMENT AND PROGRAM SERVICE
2018-2021 Ph.D. Admissions Committee member. (also co-organized prospective student campus visit day with Mac Marston.)
2009-2011 Cultural Studies Undergraduate Program Coordinator. Sabancı University.
2007-2009 Director of Graduate Studies, Cultural Studies MA program. Sabancı University.
2007-2014 Prospective Students Orientation Day Speaker
2008-2015 Cultural Studies Program Representative
2006-2007 Creation of MA program in Cultural Studies Task Force
2006-2008 Co-designed the year-long core requirement of M.A. program in Cultural Studies, composed of two courses, “Epistemological Foundations of Cultural Analysis,” and its sequel “Cultural Analysis Workshop.”
2013- 2014 Dicle Kogacıoglu Paper Award, Committee Member.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2019- 2022 At-Large Board Member of the Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association.
2020 Middle East Section of the AAA, Graduate Paper Prize Committee Chair
2021-2024 Advisory and Ethics Board Members of the ERC Project, "Imaginative Landscapes o Islamist Politics Across the Balkan-to-Bengal Complex," Principal Investigator: Sertac Sehlikoglu, University of Cambridge.
Reviewing:
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American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropological Quarterly, Citizenship Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Constellations, Cultural Anthropology, City and Society, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, European Journal of Women’s Studies, History of the Present, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association. Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy, New Perspectives on Turkey, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Positions: Asia Critique, Signs, Slavic Studies, Women's Studies International Forum.
Book Manuscript reviews:
Stanford University Press California University Press
GRADUATE SUPERVISION and THESIS COMMITTEES
Leyla Jafarova, “Unknown bodies (of knowledge): understanding the case of missing persons in Azerbaijan.” Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. Supervisor. Boston University
Kelley Gourley, “Comparative approaches to the organization and implementation of education for refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.” Department of Anthropology. Ph.D. Supervisor. Boston University
Ilkim Karakuş,
Noha Roushdy, PhD expected 2020 Learning to be Egyptian: Class and Belonging in Cairo’s International Schools. Dissertation Committee Member, Boston University.
Yang Shen, Ph.D. 2020. Sidestepping Secularism: Performance and Imagination in Buddhist Temple-Scapes in Contemporary China. Dissertation Committee Member, Boston University
Feyza Burak Adli, Ph.D. 2020. Trajectories Of Modern Sufism:An Ethnohistorical Study Of The Rifai Order And Social Change In Turkey. Dissertation Committee Member, Boston University
Protner, Beja, 2017. “Perpetrator graffiti: sharing violent words and images in Turkey,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology.
Ülkümen, Aylin Deniz, 2017. “Life among the non-muslim spectres of Yeldegirmeni: imaginations through space,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
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Şanlı, Ayşe, 2017. “Quotidian boundaries and how to circumvent them: an inquiry into a Syrian community in İstanbul,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Ayaz, Atak, 2016. “Reflections in the silver mirror: (re)constructing the city and morality in Muş, M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Uygun, Çiçek Aycan, 2016. “Between oversexualization and motherhood: divorced mothers' narratives on womanhood, motherhood, and sexuality.” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Abiral, Bürge, 2015. “Catastrophic futures, anxious presents: lifestyle activism and hope in the permaculture movement in Turkey,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Soysal Al, İrem, 2015. “Organic food and mothers: techniques of neoliberal governmentality and negotiation of multiple discourses of motherhood, risks, and organic food,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Spathopoulou, Aila, 2015. “Degrees of liquidity on the Aegean: ships, migrants and connecting waters around Lesvos,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Tünaydın, Pelin, 2014. “Rescuing the bears, silencing the bear leaders: bear dancing in historical context and its abolition in Turkey,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Gioltzoglou, Polina Parthena, 2014. “Making a home: symbolic representations of domestic space among the christian orthodox antiocheans in Istanbul,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Nuzumlalı Schooley, Oya, 2012. “Mixed feelings over an unprecedented election: Contestations of ethnicity within the Süryani-Keldani community, M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Norcross, Lindsey Nicole, 2012. “In good company: The incomparable legend of Robert College,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Doğan, Seda, 2012. “Symbolic boundaries, imagined hierarchies: a case study of women from post-socialist countries working as domestic workers in Istanbul,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University
Balta, Ayşegül, 2010. “The role of NGOs in the asylum system in Turkey: beyond intermediation, M.A. thesis supervisor, “Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
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Sarıışık, Yaprak, 2010. “Mosquitoes, sex workers, nuns and "our ignorant folk": narratives of hpv infection and vaccination among Turkish doctors,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Özer, Güney Olcay, 2009. “Working with and against stereotypes: representations of honor among Turkish immigrant women in a migrant association in Berlin,”M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Aksay, Esin, 2008. “Erasmus as an emerging educational space in Turkey: explanation of a new reality at the nexus of education, youth and change,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
Ellialtı, Tuğçe, 2008. “The stomachache of Turkish women: virginity, premarital sex and responses to ongoing vigilance over women's bodies,” M.A. thesis supervisor, Cultural Studies/Anthropology, Sabanci University.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Middle East Section, AAA Society for the Anthropology of Europe
LANGUAGES
Turkish (native fluency) French (intermediate reading, speaking and writing knowledge) German (intermediate reading and elementary speaking and writing knowledge) Western Armenian (elementary speaking and writing, intermediate reading knowledge)