Faculty Accomplishments

Received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for the workshop, “Knowledge, Facts and Evidence in Anthropology in the Era of ‘Post-Truth,’” to take place over three days in August 2022 at Mount Holyoke.

Fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) with support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project “Oppressive Generosity, Compulsory Guesthood, and the Politics of Hospitality in Turkey.” The project is for six months.

Babül, E.M. (2023), Compulsory guesthood, social cohesion, and the politics of hospitality in Turkey. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14063

Babul, E. M. (n.d.). Review Essay: Legal Occupations. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Retrieved October 27, 2021, from https://polarjournal.org/2021/10/12/legal-occupations/.

Babül, E., Davis, M. H., Barnes, J., & Lubin, A. (Eds.). (2021, August 4). Race-Legacies and Challenges. MERIP. https://merip.org/magazine/299/.

Alemdaroğlu, A. and Babül, E. (2021, February 23). Boğaziçi Resists Authoritarian Control of the Academy in Turkey. Middle East Report Online. https://merip.org/2021/02/bogazici-resists-authoritarian-control-of-the-academy-in-turkey/

Alemdaroğlu, A., Babül, E., Keshavarzian, A., Al-Tikriti, N. (eds.) (2020) Kurdistan, One and Many, Middle East Report 295 (Summer 2020).

Babül, E. (2020). Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. By Aslı Iğsız. Stanford: Stanford University Press. doi:10.1017/slr.2020.98

Babül, E. M. "Postscript to Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe: Negotiating Bureaucratic Authority and Governmental Legitimacy in Turkey" PoLAR Virtual Edition. 2016.

Babül, E. M. (2020). Radical once more: the contentious politics of human rights in Turkey. Social Anthropology, 28(1), 50–65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12740