UW Graduate School
NME Students
 |
Ayda Apa Pomeshikov ayda@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2019) |
Dissertation Title:”The Prophet was a Refugee too: Islamic Humanitarianism and Refugees’ Search for Rights and Belonging in Turkey” |
 |
William Bamber wbamber@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2016) |
Dissertation Title: “Fez & Sherwani: Self-fashioning, Consumption and Ottoman Influence in 19th Century South Asia” academia.edu link |
 |
Tuna Basibek tunab@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish History, Russian imperial history, Circassians and Northern Caucasus refugee and forced migration studies. |
 |
Canan Bolel cananbo@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2017) |
Dissertation Title: “On the Margins of an Ottoman City: Politics of Exclusion in the Jewish Community of Izmir, 1847-1923” academia.edu link |
 |
Vincent Calvetti-Wolf calvetti@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Mizrahi social movements; Zionism; race, ethnicity and nationalism in Israel/Palestine; Jewish diasporas; anthropologies of the state; political theology; migration studies; class stratification in Israel academia.edu link |
 |
Melinda Cohoon mecohoon@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Digital Middle Eastern communities and Syrian diaspora gamers via Twitch.TV; perceptions, (de)constructing narratives, and education from the Middle Eastern historical content in ‘turn-based’ and ‘real-time’ video games academia.edu link |
 |
Busra Demirkol bd092@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Ottoman and Turkish history; state-society relations; sociological theory; crime and deviance; women, sex and gender |
 |
Gozde Burcu Ege burcuege@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2017) |
Dissertation Title: “From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Urban Encampments of Palestinian Refugee Youth under New Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan” |
 |
Jennifer Hunter jrh259@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Late antique Christianity; the multi-religious and multi-cultural environment of the Roman and Sasanian empires; women, sex, and gender; material culture and ritual practices including ‘magic’, theurgy, and the cult of the saints; ritualization of marriage and conception; theory and methods of ritual studies. |
 |
Ayse Nal aysenal@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2015) |
Dissertation Title: “Rural environmental resistance movements in Turkey and Indonesia” |
 |
Roman Pomeshchikov romanpom@uw.edu |
Research Interests: State-society relations, electronic governance, development in Turkic countries |
 |
Maral Sahebjame marals@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2018) |
Dissertation Title: “Marriage Across the ‘Color Spectrum’: Making commitment Palatable in the Islamic Republic of Iran” |
| Solmaz Shakerifard solmus@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Socio-cultural and anthropological study of the modern Middle East through the lens of music, focusing on Iran | |
 |
Michael Sims simsmb@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2016) |
Dissertation Title: “‘Without a Purpose, Misfortune will Befall Our Land’: Discourses of Nation in Late Ottoman Kurdistan” |
 |
Pelin Tunaydin pelint@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2019) |
Dissertation Title: Precarious Identities in Late- and Post-Ottoman Turkey: The Case of the Roma (Gypsies) academia.edu link |