EDUCATION
M.A. (2010) University of Los Angeles, California
B.A. (2005) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
RESEARCH
My master's thesis focused on Orhan Pamuk's memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City. I was particularly interested in the ways in which Pamuk claims a rooted and local identity; at the same time, I argued that one of Pamuk's central projects in his memoir was to place himself in Istanbul without endorsing a nationalist project.
My doctoral research will be located in the Istanbul neighborhood of Eyüp and study some of the ways in which the neighborhood - or particular sites within the neighborhood - have come to be understood as especially Islamic.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010 Summer FLAS (Turkish)
2009-2010 FLAS (Turkish)
2009 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
2007-2008 FLAS (Arabic)
ADVISORS
Lieba Faier (chair)
Michael Curry
Susan Slyomovics (external, Anthropology)
Irene Bierman (external, Art History)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Association of American Geographers, April 2010. Representing Istanbul and the 'Problem' of the West: Reading Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: Memories and the City.
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, October 2009. ?The Grand Canyon Upside Down?: Some Notes on Water and History in Imperial County, California.
Duke ? UNC-CH Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, April 2009. The Body in Place: Intersections of Faith, Identity, and Place in the Mughal Atelier.
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