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Melissa Bilal
University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Armenian Studies
Cultural Studies
Ethnomusicology
Folklore/Folklife
Gender/Women's Studies
Historiography
Mediterranean Studies
Minorities
Music
Ottoman Studies
Peace Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theater
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Armenia
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Languages
Armenian (native)
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Greek (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2004 | Sociology | Bogazici University
BA | 2001 | Sociology | Bogazici University
Abstracts
On (Not) Being (Able to Be) an Armenian in Turkey Decolonizing Gendered and Affective Constructions of the “Armenian” in Turkey