Meltem Ahıska
Professor
Contact Information
(212) 359 70 63
Areas of Interest
Orientalism/Occidentalism, critical theory, social memory, gender
Education
| Ph.D., Goldsmiths College (2000) | ||
| B.A., Boğaziçi University (1980) | ||
Selected Publications
“Memory as Encounter: The Saturday Mothers in Turkey” in Women Mobilizing Memory, eds. Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon, Columbia University Press, 2019.
“Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros” in Vulnerability in Resistance, eds. Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabbay, Duke University Press, 2016.
“Orientalism/Occidentalism” Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, eds. Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad, Leiden: Brill, 2015.
“Monsters That Remember: Tracing the story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, Istanbul” New Perspectives on Turkey, no.45: 9-47, 2011.
“Violence against Women in Turkey: Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Eros” in Vulnerability in Resistance, eds. Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, Leticia Sabbay, Duke University Press, 2016.
“Orientalism/Occidentalism” Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, eds. Robert Segal, Kocku von Stuckrad, Leiden: Brill, 2015.
“Monsters That Remember: Tracing the story of the Workers’ Monument in Tophane, Istanbul” New Perspectives on Turkey, no.45: 9-47, 2011.
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