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Aykan Erdemir
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Occupation
Other
Contact
Secondary Phone: (202) 403-2905
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
P.O. Box 33249
Washington DC 20033
United States
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Foreign Relations
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Security Studies
Terrorism
Turkish Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Turkey
Specialties
Alevis
Religious Freedom
Radical Islam
Languages
German (intermediate)
Persian (elementary)
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2004 | Anthropology & Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
MA | 1998 | Middle Eastern Studies | Harvard University
BA | 1996 | International Relations | Bilkent University
Abstracts
Sacred Museums of the Secular State: The Competitive Sharing of the Haci Bektash Museum The Limits of Incorporation: The Failure of Turkey’s “Alevi Opening” Surviving State-Sanctioned Sectarianism: Coping Strategies of Displaced Alevis