Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Efkleidou 10
Kifisia
Athens
14561
Greece
ABOUT
Dr.Ilay Romain Ors is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology. She received BA degrees in Sociology and Political Science from Bogazici University Istanbul, an MSc degree in Social Anthropology from University College London, an MPhil and PhD degree in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Her dissertation work was on the Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul (Rum Polites) in Athens, which has been published in revised form as "Diaspora of the City: stories of cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens" (Palgrave 2018). She is currently based in Greece, where she is undertaking research on Aegean migrations, funded by ISRF and under contract by Berghahn Publishers. Ors is a research affiliate at Oxford University's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society and a teaching associate at American College of Greece. Her research interests include migrations, minorities, urban studies, political movements, and cultural identities in Greece and Turkey.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Minorities
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnography
Identity/Representation
Mediterranean Studies
Turkish Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mediterranean Countries
Turkey
Specialties
Minorities, Migration, Identity, Greece, Turkey
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (advanced)
German (advanced)
Greek (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
| Harvard University
MPhil
| 2000
| Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
| Harvard University
MS
| 1997
| Social Anthropology
| University College London
BA
| 1996
| Political Science and International Relations
| Bogazici University
BA
| 1996
| Sociology
| Bogazici University
Abstracts
Encountering experiences of exile: The expulsions of the Greeks of Turkey in 1964
