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Susan Benson-Sokmen
University of Toronto
Occupation
Adjunct Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: (647) 979-4434

Toronto
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Kurdish Studies
Nationalism
Turkish Studies
Colonialism
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Kurdistan
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Kurdish Resistance
Non-state Sovereignty
Women And Political Violence
Languages
Kurmanji (elementary)
English (native)
Turkish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2019 | History | University of Toronto
MA | 2009 | Middle East Studies, Women and Gender Studies | University of Toronto
Abstracts
Sounds of Silence?-Kurds in the Kemalist City Beyond the Nation: Celebrating the Kurdish "Counter-Diaspora" in the Streets of Toronto Imagining the non-state: Historical Production in Turkey's "Fourth most-Kurdish City" The Poetics of Political Violence: Women of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and Feminism’s Forgotten History of Armed Struggle Liberated from the Nation-State: Reimagining Revolutionary Masculinity in the Mountains of Kurdistan Kurdish Women and Memorial Resistance