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Asli Zengin
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
34E 45th Street
Bayonne NJ 07002
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Gender/Women's Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Specialties
Intimacy, Feminist And Queer/Trans Studies, State Formation, Urban Geography
Violence, Death, Mourning, Ghosts, Burials
Languages
English (advanced)
Turkish (native)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2014 | Anthropology | University of Toronto
BA | 2004 | Econ | Bogazici U
MA | 2004 | Econ | Bogazici U
Abstracts
Queer Claims on “Real Family”: Abandonment, Disowning, and Transgender Deaths in Turkey Politics of Love/Loving Politics: Notes on the LGBTQ Movement in Turkey Mortal Intimacies: Transgender Funerals, Mourning and Caring for the Dead in Turkey “Cemetery for the Unknown”: A Mortal Topography of Social Margins in Turkey Intimate Experiments with Kinship: Transgender Daughterhood/Motherhood/Friendship in Turkey