UW Graduate School
NME Students
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Ayda Apa Pomeshikov ayda@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Refugee and forced migration studies, humanitarianism and human rights, Islamic NGOs, Muslim diasporas |
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Esra Bakkalbasioglu esrab@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2014) |
Dissertation Title: “(Infra)structuring State-Minority Relations: Regional Development Relations in the Peripheries of Israel and Turkey” academia.edu link |
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William Bamber wbamber@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2016) |
Dissertation Title: “’Let them wear fezzes, a sherwani and boots’: Consumption, anti-Westernism and the Politics of Male Dress between Ottoman Turkey and South Asia, 1876-1908” academia.edu link |
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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 |
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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 |
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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Syrian diaspora gamers via Twitch.TV; perceptions, (de)constructing narratives, and education from the Middle Eastern historical content in ‘turn-based’ and ‘real-time’ video games academia.edu link |
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Michael Degerald mkd22@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2015) |
Dissertation Title: “The Legibility of Power and Culture in Ba’thist Iraq: 1968-1991” academia.edu link |
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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” |
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Anat Goldman anatg@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2013) |
Dissertation Title: “Making Desired (and Undesired) Citizens: Reshaping Identities and Nation Building in Israel and Turkey” academia.edu link |
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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. |
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Mehmet Kentel kentel@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2014) |
Dissertation Title: “Assembling ‘Cosmopolitanism’: Making Modern Pera through Infrastructure in the Late Ottoman Constantinople” academia.edu link |
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Marwa Maziad marwa@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2014) |
Dissertation Title: “Oscillating Civil-military Relations in Democratizing Societies: the Military in State and Society, Case Studies of Egypt, Turkey, and Israel 1980–2015” academia.edu link |
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Ayse Nal aysenal@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2015) |
Dissertation Title: “Rural environmental resistance movements in Turkey and Indonesia” |
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Roman Pomeshchikov romanpom@uw.edu |
Research Interests: State-society relations, electronic governance, development in Turkic countries |
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Maral Sahebjame marals@uw.edu (Ph.C., 2018) |
Research Interests: Exploring contemporary narratives of marriage in the Islamic Republic of Iran, focusing in particular on “white marriage” |
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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” |
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Pelin Tunaydin pelint@uw.edu |
Research Interests: Ethnicity and nationalism; comparative ethnic histories; the governance of difference in the Turkish nation-building paradigm; Romani citizenship, belonging, and identity in the transition from empire to republic academia.edu link |