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PERVIN BANU GÖKARIKSEL Department of Geography and the Curriculum in Global Studies
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220
[email protected] http://www.unc.edu/depts/geog/people/faculty/gokariksel/
EDUCATION
2003 Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Geography. Seattle.
“Situated Modernities: Geographies of Identity, Urban Space, and Globalization” 1998 M.A.1998. Boğaziçi University, Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology,
Istanbul, Turkey. “Consumption Sites in Globalizing Cities: The Case of Akmerkez in Istanbul”
1994 B.A. Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics, Istanbul, Turkey. ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Co-Editor. 07/01/2014-07/01/2018. Associate Professor, 2012-
Department of Geography. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Joint appointment in the Curriculum in Global Studies; Institute of Arts and Humanities Fellow and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies Fellow.
Adjunct Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, Duke University, Durham. Assistant Professor, 2005 – 2011.
Department of Geography. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Joint appointment in the Curriculum in Global Studies; Institute of Arts and Humanities Fellow and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies Fellow.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Duke University, Durham. Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2004.
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Visiting Instructor, Spring 2004.
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Visiting Scholar, 2003-2004.
Comparative Area and International Studies and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, Duke University, Durham.
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Pre-Doctoral Teaching Associate, Summer 2001 and 2002, Winter 2002.
Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle.
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Institute of Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Spring 2015. UNC College of Arts and Sciences Research Award for New Associate Professors, 2012. ($6,000) Janice Monk Visiting Distinguished Professor in Feminist Geography, University of Arizona and
the Association of American Geographers, 2011. UNC Faculty Mentoring Award, the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council, 2011 (nomination). Robertson Scholars Award (Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
2007. Marketing Muslim Women International Conference, April 10-12, 2008. ($3,000) Institute of Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Spring 2008. Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 2007. ($7,500) The University Center for International Studies, Faculty Curriculum Development Award,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 2005. ($5,000) Honorable Mention for Teaching Award, University of Washington, Seattle. 2001-2002. The Gerlach Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle. Fall 2002. The Chester Fritz Scholarship for International Exchange, University of Washington, Seattle. For
dissertation research in Indonesia. Spring 2000. Hewlett Fellowship, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington,
Seattle. 1999. PUBLICATIONS
Edited special issues of refereed journals 2010 Banu Gökarıksel and Ellen McLarney, eds “Muslim Women, Consumer Capitalism and
Islamic Culture Industry” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 6, 3.
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Refereed journal articles 2015 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Postsecular geographies and the problem of
pluralism: Religion and everyday life in Istanbul, Turkey,” Political Geography, 46. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.10.006
2014 Amy Mills and Banu Gökarıksel, “Provincializing Geographies of Religion: Geographies of
Muslim Identities Beyond the ‘West’,” Geography Compass, 8, 12, 902-914. DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12188
2014 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, "The Veil, Desire, and the Gaze: Turning the Inside
Out," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 40, 1, 177-200. 2012 Banu Gökarıksel, “The Intimate Politics of Secularism and the Headscarf: The Mall, the
Neighborhood, and the Public Square in Istanbul” Gender, Place, and Culture, 19, 1, 1-20.
2012 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “‘Even I Was Tempted:’ The Moral Ambivalence and
Ethical Practice of Veiling-Fashion in Turkey,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2012, 102, 4, 847-862. DOI:10.1080/00045608.2011.601221
2010 Banu Gökarıksel and Ellen McLarney, “Introduction: Muslim Women, Consumer
Capitalism and Islamic Culture Industry,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 6, 3, 1-18.
2010 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Between Fashion and Tesettür: Marketing and
Consuming Women’s Islamic Dress,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 6, 3, 118-148.
2010 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Islamic-ness in the Life of a Commodity: Veiling-
Fashion in Turkey,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35, 313-333. DOI: 10.1111/j1475-5661.2010.00384.x.
2009 Banu Gökarıksel, “Beyond the Officially Sacred: Religion, Secularism and the Body in the
Production of Subjectivity,” Social and Cultural Geography, 10, 6, 657- 674. DOI: 10.1080/14649360903068993.
2009 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “New Transnational Geographies of Islamism,
Capitalism and Subjectivity: The Veiling-Fashion Industry in Turkey,” Area, 41, 1, 6-18.
2005 Banu Gökarıksel and Katharyne Mitchell, “Veiling, Secularism and the Neoliberal Subject: National Narratives and Supranational Desires in Turkey and France,” Global Networks, 5, 2, 147-165.
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2001 Banu Gökarıksel, “Mapping Galleria, Akmerkez and Capitol in the Cultural Context of Istanbul” (Istanbul’un Kültürel Haritasında Galleria, Akmerkez ve Capitol’un Yeri), Kaya et al eds special issue on “Cultural Studies”, ToplumBilim (Social Theory), October, 14, 105-113. Istanbul.
Under review with Anna Secor, “Post-Islamism in crisis?” (submitted to Theory, Culture & Society) with Sara Smith, Agnes Chew, and Nathan Swanson, eds Special Issue: Bodies, Borders,
Territory, Area. (special issue accepted; first papers by McKinnon and Swanson published in fall 2014)
Book chapters 2015 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Islam on the catwalk,” in Stan Brunn ed. Changing
World Religion Map, March, Volume 4, Chapter 11.6. Springer: New York and London. 2013 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Transnational networks of veiling-fashion between
Turkey and Western Europe,” in Annelies Moors and Emma Tarlo eds, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic: London, 157-167.
2013 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “You can’t know how they are inside”: The
Ambivalence of Veiling and Discourses of the Other in Turkey,” in Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, and Elizabeth Olson eds. Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics, and Piety. Springer Press: Dordrecht, 95-114.
2009 Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “New Transnational Geographies of Islamism,
Capitalism and Subjectivity: The Veiling-Fashion Industry in Turkey,” in Johanna Pink ed. Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption. Cambridge Scholars Press. (reprinted Area article)
2007 Banu Gökarıksel, “A Feminist Geography of Veiling: Gender, Class and Religion in the
Making of Modern Spaces and Subjects in Istanbul”, in Karen Morin and Jeanne Kay Guelke eds Women, Religion, and Space, pp. 61-80. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
In progress Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “Beyond the Symbolism of the Headscarf: The Assemblage of
Veiling and the Headscarf as a Scriptive Thing ”, in Vasudha Narayanan and Manuel A. Vásquez eds, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Material Religion. (submitted in December 2013; accepted)
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Banu Gökarıksel, “Body Space/City Space: Veiling as an Embodied Spatial Practice,” in Andrew Janiak ed. Space. Oxford University Press. (submitted in January 2013; accepted)
Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor, “What Makes a Commodity Islamic?”, in Aliakbar Jabbar and
Özlem Sandıkçı eds. Critical Perspectives on Islamic Marketing. London: Routledge. (submitted in May 2014; accepted)
Other articles 2001 “Neither Public nor Private: The Space of Shopping Malls” (Ne Kamusal Ne Özel: Alışveriş
Merkezleri), September-October 10, XXI. Magazine on Architectural Culture, Ankara. Commentary 2013 “ReOrienting the Veil”, IslamiCommentary, May 6.
http://islamicommentary.org/2013/05/banu-gokariksel-on-reorienting-the-veil/ http://www.juancole.com/2013/05/reorienting-veil-gokariksel.html (republished by Juan Cole in his blog Informed Comment on May 9, 2013)
Book reviews 2014 Sacred Subdivisions: Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism. Justin G.
Wilford. Social and Cultural Geography, June (contribution to book review forum). DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2014.928064
2013 The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geographies in a Post-War Polity. Yael Navarro-
Yashin (Duke University Press, 2012). The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 24, 2, 221-223.
2012 Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul. Amy Mills
(University of Georgia Press, 2010). Cultural Geographies, 19, 3, 413-414. 2007 Modernity, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places and Time. Alev Çınar
(University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25, 3, 581-583.
2007 Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion and Space. Ghazi-Walid Falah and
Caroline Nagel eds. (The Guildford Press, 2005). Gender, Place and Culture, 14, 2, 237-239.
2001 “From the Local/Global Dichotomy to the Local/Global Dialectic: A Review of Çağlar
Keyder edited Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local”, Progress in Human Geography, March, 25, 1.
Contributions to textbooks
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2014 “A Cultural Geographic Approach to Islam and Gender.” Introduction to Geography: People, Places and Environment, 6th edition by Carl Dahlman and Bill Renwick. Chapter 7, Explorations section, pp. 274-275. Pearson. January.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND CITATIONS
2013 “Tesettürlüler modayı körü körüne kabul etmiyor” Interview in Turkish daily Zaman
Newspaper, 31 August. http://www.zaman.com.tr/cumaertesi_tesetturluler-modayi-koru-korune-kabul-etmiyor_2127349.html (Zaman is the largest daily in Turkey with 955,848 sales out of a total of 4,970,754 newspapers sold during the week of 8/26-9/1 2013, http://www.medyatava.com/tiraj)
“The State of Things”, WUNC/NPR, on “ReOrienting the Veil”. 22 February.
2012 “A la Mode D’Allah” by Julie Pecheur. M, Le Magazine du Monde (France). 8 December. 86-93.
TEACHING
Courses at UNC-CH Fall 2015 Geog447/Asian 447/ Wmst 447: Gender in the Middle East Geog 448: Transnational Muslims Spring 2015: Institute of Arts and Humanities Fellowship Fall 2014: Parental Leave Spring 2014: Research and Study Leave Fall 2013 Geog 121: People and Places: Geographies of Globalization DGS one course off Spring 2013 Geog 059 FYS: Space, Power and Identity in the Middle East Geog 804: Graduate Seminar: Feminist Geographies: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics Fall 2012 Geog 121: People and Places: Geographies of Globalization Geog 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East Spring 2012
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Geog 121: People and Places: Geographies of Globalization Geog 448/Ints 448: Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies Fall 2011 Geog 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East Geog 804: Graduate Seminar: Feminist Geographies: Genealogies and Recent Debates Spring 2011 Geog 121: People and Places Geog 448/Ints 448: Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies Fall 2010 Geog 059 FYS: Space, Power and Identity in the Middle East Geog 447/Ints 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East Spring 2010 Ints 490.002: Sawyer Seminar: Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies Fall 2009 Geog 121: People and Places Ints 490.001: Sawyer Seminar: Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies Spring 2009 Ints 692H: Honors Thesis Seminar Geog 804: Social Geography Graduate Seminar: Neoliberalism and Subjectivity Fall 2008 Geog 121: People and Places Ints 691H: Honors Thesis Seminar Fall 2007 Ints 210: Global Issues Geog 447/Ints 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East Fall 2006 Geog 059 FYS: Space, Power and Identity in the Middle East Geog 447/Ints 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East Fall 2005 Geog 421: Social Geography Spring 2005 Geog 447/Ints 447/Asian 447: Gender and Space in the Middle East
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Fall 2004 Geog 121: People and Places Geog 421: Social Geography Spring 2004 Geog 121: People and Places Recent courses at Duke University 2013 Duke in Turkey Summer II Program. Gender, Space and Politics in the Middle East. (Crosslisted: Political Science, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish) 2012 Duke in Turkey Summer II Program, 2012. Gender, Space and Politics in the Middle East. (Crosslisted: Political Science, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Turkish) Undergraduate Advising Honors Thesis Committee Chair Katherine Shields (2006). (Public Policy and Drama) Cracked Foundations: Urban Development
and Changing Politics of Squatter Settlements in Istanbul. Accepted with scholarship to the joint Masters Program in Middle Eastern Studies and Public Heath at the University of Michigan in 2010.
Callie Peck (2007). (Global Studies) Female Political Bodies and Body Politics: Muslim Women’s
Participation in the Development of the Palestinian Nationalist Islamist Movement. Hannah Highfill (2009). (Global Studies) Beyond the Mosque: Religious Practice, Gender, and
Space in an Istanbul Sufi Community. Accepted with scholarship to Islamic Studies MA program at Washington University in 2009.
Bethany Corbin (2011). (Global Studies) A Bleeding Sin: An Examination of Honor Killings in
Turkey and Germany. Awarded the competitive Mary Turner Lane Award for Excellence in Research on Women’s Issues by a Senior (2011) and full scholarship to Wake Forest Law School.
Amy Sarah Nunez (2012). (Geography) An Orientalist Appetite for India: The Commodification
and Consumption of the “Other’s” Culture in the West.
Leah Neal (2013). (Global Studies) Minorities, Mobilization, and Marginalization: Non-Majority Actors and the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions.
Lily Herbert (expected in 2016). Islam, Headscarf, and Public Space in Kazakhstan.
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Honors Thesis Committee Member Katherine Locke (2011). (Religious Studies) Presence of the Past: Byzantine and Ottoman
Architecture and its Effects on Collective Memory in Modern-Day Turkey.
Gregory Randoph (2012). (Religious Studies) The Refugee Regime: An Explication of the Legal and Epistemic Mechanisms that Govern Stateless Lives.
Megan Roosevelt (2012). (Political Science) As Islamic Banking Spreads to the Non-Muslim West: An Assessment of Economic vs. Religious Motivations for Financial Institution-Type Preference in the United Kingdom.
Independent study/research
Maria Suarez (Fall 2012). (Duke University Women’s Studies). The Politics of Veiling Fashion.
Graduate Advising Ph.D. Committees (Chair) Murat Es (2006-2012). Turkish-Dutch Mosques and the Construction of Transnational Spaces in
Europe. Recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant, the Netherlands HSP-Huygens Programme (the Netherlands), and the Middle East Research Council.
Nathan Swanson (2009-). The Politics of Home in Jerusalem: Partitions, Parks, and Planning
Futures. Mike Dimpfl (2011-) (co-chair). Jim Kuras (2015-) (chair). Devran Koray Öçal (2015-) M.A. Committees (Chair) Katherine Akin (2010-2014). “…The truth is that the center is free and open” The politics of self
and social transformation in Santo Daime’s living doctrine. Jim Kuras (2012-2015). Images of Pregnant Women at Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul, 2013. Ph.D. Committees (Member) Tina Mangieri (2007). Refashioning Transnational Spaces: Cloth and Clothing in the Indian
Ocean Littoral.
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Joseph Palis (2008). Cinema Archipelago: The Geography of Philippine Film and the National Imaginary.
Matthew Reilly (2008). The Nocturnal Negotiations of Youth Spaces in Havana. Angela Cacciarru (2010). Where We Come From: Common Problems and Local Solutions to the
Land Tenure Issue in Rural Sardinia, Italy. Tamara Johnson (2011). Urban Beat: Emotive Creation and Embodied Negotiations of Territory,
Belonging, and the Rights to the City in Cape Town, South Africa. Linda Quiquivix (2012). The Political Mapping of Palestine. Craig Dalton (2012). Mashing-up Maps: The Organizing Imperatives and Geographic Visions of
Google’s Online Map Services. Annelies Goger (2013). Managing Global Guilt and Local Norms: Regulation in the Sri Lankan
Clothing Industry. Liz Mason-Deese (ABD). The Movements of Unemployed Workers and the Recomposition of
Buenos Aires’s Precarious Urban Geography. Chris Courtheyn (ABD). Adam Bledsoe (ABD). Eloisa Berman-Arevalo (ABD). Darius Scott MA committees (member) Haruna Suzuki (2014). Science for Galapagos? Science, place, and publics in the Galapagos
Archipelago. External or Outside Committee Member (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Samantha Szczur (Communication, 2010). Office Space: The Corporate Campus, Employee
Services, and Worker Subjectivity. Grover Wehman (Communication). Rural Publics, Housing and a Method of Disclosure. External Committee Member (outside of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Anne Ranek (Geography). University of Arizona. Muslim youth in Denmark.
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Postdoctoral Advising Zeynep Türkyılmaz (Ph.D. 2009, UCLA History). UNC Sawyer Seminar 2009-2010. (tenure track
position at Dartmouth College, History, Fall 2011) GRANTS
Collaborator, National Geographic Society, “Islam, public space, and democracy in Turkey.”
Collaborating PI: Anna Secor (Geography, University of Kentucky). 01/15/2014-01/15/2015. ($19,506)
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: The Role of
Religion in Public Life in Turkey Today.” Proposal no: 1437090. Collaborating PI: Anna Secor (Geography, University of Kentucky). 8/1/2014-7/31/2016. ($184,748; project total $376,219)
Principal Investigator, Sustainable Agriculture and Education Research Program, “Bee Aware…Look, Listen, Run: Killer Bee Governance in South Florida.” Co:PI: Kevin Fox (Dissertation research). 08/04/2012-08/01/2013. ($12,000) (Declined)
Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar. “Diversity and
Conformity in Muslim Societies: Historical Coexistence and Contemporary Struggles.” Collaborating PI: Sarah Shields (History, UNC-Chapel Hill). 08/01/2009-06/31/2010. ($148,000)
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Geographical and Spatial Sciences Program
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement. Proposal No: 0927792. “Turkish-Dutch Mosques and the Construction of Transnational Spaces in Europe.” Co-PI: Murat Es. 08/15/2009-01/31/2011. ($12,000)
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Geographical and Spatial Sciences Program.
“Collaborative research: The veiling fashion industry: transnational geographies of Islamism, capitalism and identity.” Proposal No: 0723986. Collaborating PI: Anna Secor (Geography, University of Kentucky). 08/01/2007 to 01/31/2012. ($199,088)
The Carolina Asia Center Faculty Travel Grant for Course Development and Enrichment,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 2005. ($5,000) Principal Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Grant, Center for Studies in
Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle. 2000.
SERVICE
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Departmental Committees Chair, Information Committee, Fall 2015. Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2013. Diversity Committee, Fall 2009- Member, Post-tenure Review Committee, Fall 2012- Member, Interview Committee, Spring 2012. Member, Interview Committee, Spring 2011. Member, Search Committee, International Development and Political Economy, Department of
Geography, UNC, Spring 2010. Member, Merit Review Committee, Spring 2009-2013. Member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2008 – Member, Search Committee, Urban Geography, Department of Geography, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2007. Member, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2007—Spring 2008. Colloquium Committee, Department of Geography, 2004-2005, Fall 2008. Mentoring Organized a workshop for assistant professors about the tenure review process (January 2014
and May 2014) Member in mentoring committees of Elizabeth Havice, Christian Lentz, Nina Martin, Alvaro
Reyes, Sara Smith, Gabriela Valdivia University and College Committees Member, Review and Promotion Committee, Jonathan Weiler review, the Curriculum of Global
Studies, Spring 2013. Diversity liason of the Department of Geography in the College of Arts & Sciences, Spring 2012. Member, Mideast Consortium Executive Committee, Duke University and University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, Fall 2010-2012.
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Member, the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, Faculty
Advisory Committee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2006 – (serving 2nd term).
Member, Search Committee, Lecturer in Turkish Studies, Department of Asian Studies, UNC,
2009-2010. Member, Women’s Studies Faculty Advisory Committee, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC. Fall 2005 – Fall 2013 (served 2 terms). Member, Carnegie Scholars Program Internal Review Committee, UNC, 2008. Co-Chair of Gender and Globalization Faculty Working Group. Spring 2008 -2010. Member, Center for Global Initiatives, Predissertation Fellowship Selection Committee, Spring
2008. Duke University Co-director of Duke in Turkey Program (Summer II). 2012 and 2013. National Professional Committees Member, the Association of American Geographers Constitution and Bylaws Committee (July
2011, 3-year term) Invited Reviews for Scholarly Journals Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2009; 2010; 2011 (2 papers); 2013) Arab World Geographer (2010) Contemporary Islam (2012) Cultural Anthropology (2005) Cultural Geographies (2004; 2005; 2007; 2010) Feminist Economics (2012) Gender, Place and Culture (2007 (3 papers); 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011 (3 papers); 2012; 2013 (6 papers); 2014) Geographical Review (2005) Geopolitics (2005; 2009; 2010; 2012(2papers)) Global Networks (2009) International Journal of Middle East Studies (2012) Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (2014) Political Geography (2011, 2012) Social and Cultural Geography (2005; 2008; 2009; 2013; 2014) The Professional Geographer (2007) Progress in Human Geography (2012 (2 papers); 2013; 2014)
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Women’s Studies International Forum (2013) Gender & Society (2013) Religions (2014) Geoforum (2015) Journal of Consumer Research (2015) Grant Proposal Review
National Science Foundation. 3 in 2012
National Science Foundation GSS DDRI Panel (Spring 2014)
Invited Reviews of Manuscripts
Duke University Press (2011)
University of Minnesota Press (2012)
Indiana University Press (2013)
Syracuse University Press (2013)
Membership in Professional Associations Association of American Geographers Social & Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Middle East Geography Specialty Group Geographic Perspectives on Women
Middle East Studies Association RESEARCH WEB SITES
http://veilingfashion.unc.edu http://cgi.unc.edu/research/mellon-sawyer/09-10/
RECENT INVITED TALKS
2015 Geography of Religion and Belief Systems Specialty Group Annual Lecture, “The Post-
Secular Problematic”, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 21-25, Chicago.
2014 Finnish Urban Studies Days, Keynote lecture (declined). 2013 Discussant, “Geographies of Gender in the Arab Revolutions” Workshop, Duke
University, December 13-14.
“Harmonizing Inner and Outer Beauty: Aesthetics of Veiling-Fashion in Turkey,” in Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Conference, “ReOrienting the Veil”. 22-23 February.
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Discussant, “Re-mapping the Middle East: Digital Narratives” workshop at NC-State University. February 8.
Discussant, “(De-)Centering Islam and the Question of Authenticity,” Duke-UNC Islamic
Studies Conference, February 16-17.
7th Annual University of Illinois Symposium on Istanbul: Ethnographies of Istanbul. (declined)
2012 Keynote lecture at the two-day international workshop on "Beauty: Commons vs.
Contests" (24 - 26 October 2012, University of Antwerp, Belgium). The workshop is organized by the University Centre Saint-Ignatius together with members of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Marketing of the University of Antwerp.
“Body Space/City Space: Veiling as an Embodied Spatial Practice.” Space Workshop
organized by Andrew Janiak and Oxford University Press editors. Duke University. October 19.
Discussant, “Rethinking Palestine through the Arts” workshop (26 November 2012, UNC-CH)
2011 “Geopolitics and the veil: fear, security, and the Muslim “Other” in Europe,” UNC
Worldview 2011 Community College Symposium, Peace and Conflict in Key World Regions, November 9.
“’Even I was tempted”: the moral ambivalence and ethical consumption of veiling-fashion in Turkey,” UNC Center for European Studies and the Transatlantic Masters Program Friday Lecture Series, August 26. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Seattle, April 12-16.
The Gender, Place and Culture Janice Monk Distinguished Lecture in Feminist Geography at the AAG Meeting, April 12-16.
Janice Monk Visiting Distinguished Professor in Feminist Geography Lecture at the
University of Arizona, March 25. 2010 “Islamic-ness in the life of a commodity: veiling-fashion in Turkey,” Stanford Humanities
Center-Forum for Mediterranean Studies-the Abbasi Center for Islamic Studies, Stanford University, May 27.
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2009 “The veiling-fashion industry in Turkey,” Year of Turkey Lecture Series, Kennesaw State University, Georgia, April 16.
“Islam, secularism, and modernity in Turkey: Perspectives from Geography,” “Modernity
in Turkey: Crisis in Categories of Social Science” Workshop, Princeton University, March 19-20.
“Urban topographies of Islam and the secular in Turkey,” Department of Geography,
University of Texas, Austin, February 27. 2008 “New transnational geographies of Islamism, capitalism, and subjectivity: the veiling
fashion industry in Turkey,” (with Anna Secor, University of Kentucky) Contemporary Muslim Consumer Cultures Conference, Frei Universitat, Berlin, Germany, September 24-27.
“The politics of the veil: secularism, Islam, and modernity,” The Curriculum in Women’s
Studies, University of North Carolina, February 20. “The politics of the veil: secularism, Islam, and modernity,” The Walker Institute for
International and Area Studies, Lecture Series: “East and West in the Turkish Nation: Contemporary Issues in Turkey,” University of South Carolina, February 13.
2007 “Politics of the Veil,” Duke Islamic Studies Center Advisory Board Meeting, November
10. Contextualizing Representations of Sexual Politics in the Middle East, Panel on Elle
Flanders’ “Zero Degrees of Separation”, Duke University, October 3. “Beyond the Mosque: Muslim Women’s Spatial Experiences of New Islamic Fashion” in
“Faith and Space” workshop at the Getty Research Institute, organized by Denis Cosgrove and Veronica Della Dora, May 2-3, Los Angeles.
2006 On parental leave 2005 “Situated Post/Modernities: A Conversation on Feminist Interdisciplinarity Praxis with
Banu P. Gökarıksel and Tyler Curtain", Women’s Studies Graduate Students Colloquium, Duke University, April 29.
“Rethinking ‘the Veil’: The Case of the Veiling Industry, Women’s Identities and Globalization in Turkey”, Guest Lecture, Rebecca Stein and Erdağ Göknar’s course, Cultural Anthropology 132: Representing the Middle East, Duke University, March 31.
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“Islams, Neoliberalism and Transnationalism: The Making of Subject-Citizens and Tesettür Fashions in Istanbul”, “Muslim Fashions/Fashionable Muslims” Workshop, University of Amsterdam and the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Amsterdam, April 15-16.
2003 “Situated Modernities: Moral Geographies of Gender, Religion and Class in Istanbul and
Jakarta”, research presentation, University of North Carolina, March 24, 2004, University of Minnesota, December 5, 2003, University of South Carolina, November 7.
“Moral Geographies of Globalization: Negotiating Gender in Mall Space in Istanbul and
Jakarta”, “Grounding Gender in the Local Spaces of Globalization” Workshop, Syracuse University, June 8-9.
“Situated Modernities: The Moral Geography of Gender in Istanbul and Jakarta”,
research presentation, Syracuse University, February 11, 2003, Dartmouth University, January 31.
2002 “Gendered Modernities: Geographies of Morality, Identity and the Veil”, colloquium,
Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. December 6. “Situated Modernities: The Moral Geography of Gender in Contemporary Istanbul and
Jakarta,” colloquium, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. October 25.
2001 “Social Space of Shopping Malls in Jakarta: Research Results”, colloquium, Department
of Anthropology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, April 25. RECENT CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
2013 “Veiling-fashion as an ethical spatial practice”, in Geographies of Religion Paper session,
Social Scientific Study of Religion Conference, November 8-10. Boston. AAG Annual Meeting, April 8-13. LA
Co-organizer of two paper sessions and one panel on “Post-secular spaces” (with Elizabeth Olson. “’I have nothing to do with politics!’: Religio-political configurations of veiling-fashion in Turkey” paper presentation in “Post-secular spaces” paper session II (with Anna Secor). Panel presentation in Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions “Author meets Critics.” Discussant for paper session, “Political subjectivities.”
2012 AAG Annual Meeting, February 24-28. NYC.
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“The fashionable veil and the ethico-political subject”, with Anna Secor, in paper session “Rethinking the Terrain of Geopolitics II.” Presenter at panel on “Geographies of post-secularism?” organized by Elizabeth Olson and Patricia Ehrkamp. Discussant for paper sessions “Dressing in public: dress, ideology, and the female body” and discussant for paper session on “Bodies, borders, territory.”
Oecumene Citizenship After Orientalism, The First Symposium: Opening the Boundaries
of Citizenship, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. February 6-7. “The fashionable veil and the ethico-political subject”, with Anna Secor. 2011 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 1-4.
“Producing pious bodies and subjects: consuming veiling-fashion in Turkey” in paper session “Constituting subjects: subjectivity and subject-making in the anthropology of the MENA region” (organized by Sherine Hafez). Presenter in roundtable “The spatial turn in Middle East Studies: interdisciplinary methods and approaches” (organized by Amy Mills)
With Anna Secor, “Veil, desire, and the gaze: turning the inside out,” in Subjectivities
theme of the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography, Frankfurt, Germany, August 16-20.
Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Seattle, April 12-16.
Discussant, “Localizing the Region, Experiencing Geopolitics” paper session I, AAG, April 12-16.
2009 “Spaces and Subjects of Veiling-Fashion in Turkey,” UNC-Chapel Hill “Diversity and
Conformity in Muslim Societies” Sawyer Seminar, October 1, Chapel Hill. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). March 22-27, Las
Vegas. “Topographies of Citizenship and Belonging in Urban Turkey,” in paper session
“Muslim Identity, Citizenship and Belonging in the ‘Everyday’” “The Veiling-Fashion Industry in Turkey” in “Muslim Identity, Citizenship and
Belonging: New Questions and Approaches for Geographers” panel. 2008 AAG. April 15-19, Boston. “Public Space, the Headscarf Ban and Women’s Islamist
Activism in Istanbul” in “Geographies of the Secular Public” Paper Session II.
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2007 Middle East Studies Association of North America Meeting, November 17-21, Montreal. “Public space, the Headscarf Ban and Women’s Islamist Activism in Istanbul,” in “Islam, Gender and Secularism” Paper Session II.
“Space, Identity and Veiling: Muslim Women’s Experiences of New Islamic Fashion in
Istanbul” in “Marketing Muslim Women” workshop, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke, April 27-28.
AAG. April 17-21, San Francisco.
“Neoliberalism and Islam: The Constitution of the Neoliberal Muslim subject and Veiling Fashions in Istanbul” in paper session “(Post?)Development, States and Subjectivities: Interrogating Social Organization of Economic Practice.” “International research” in panel “Qualitative Methods and Pedagogy.”
2006 On parental leave 2005 AAG. April 5-9, Denver. “Feminism, Innovative Pedagogy and the Middle East”, in panel
“Geographies of the Middle East and the Arab World I: Innovative Pedagogy for a Dynamic Region.”
2004 AAG. March 15-19, Philadelphia. “Feminist Geographies of Religion: Questioning
Secularism and Modernity in Istanbul and Jakarta”, in panel “Women, Religion and Space.”
“Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: A Spatial Analysis of Veiling Fashions in Istanbul”,
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar, Valle Crucis, NC, October 15-17.
2003 AAG. March 5-8, New Orleans. “Social Practice/Social Space: Gender, Morality and Modernity in Istanbul and Jakarta”, in panel “Geographies of Practice: Theory, Subjects, and Space.”
2002 “Territorializing Globalization and Transnationalism: Developing the Concept of
‘Situated Modernities’”, in panel titled “Geographies of Transnationalism and Globalization”, the Third International Conference of Critical Geographers, Bekescaba, Hungary, June 25-30.
AAG. March 18-23, Los Angeles. “Contested Modernities, Contested Geographies:
Ayasofya Church/ Mosque/Museum”, in panel “Contested Geographies: Public Space in Multicultural Cities.”
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2001 “Cultural Politics and Public Space: A Comparative Study of Istanbul and Jakarta”, in the “Cultural Politics” workshop, University of Michigan Center of Russian and East European Studies, Istanbul, May 28-June 2.
“Mapping Galleria, Akmerkez and Capitol in the Cultural Context of Istanbul”
(İstanbul’un Kültürel Haritasında Galleria, Akmerkez ve Capitol’un Yeri), City and People in the 21st century, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, May 1-3.
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
2013 “The Veil as a Political and Fashion Object”, Presentation to Duke School 7th grade students. 21 March.
“Turkey’s Tigers” documentary film screening, introduction and discussion. Middle East Films Series. Varsity Theater. January 31.
2012 “Nar” (Pomegranate) Turkish film screening, introduction and discussion at Middle East
Films Series. Varsity Theater. October 16. 2011 “Muslim women and the politics of the headscarf in Turkey,” UNC Center for European
Studies K-12 Teacher Workshop, May 13. 2008 “The social geography of urban Turkey: secularism, Islam, and modernity,” North
Carolina State University Encore Program, November 5. 2007 “Hope not Hate: A Geographical Approach,” “Hope not Hate: The Future of U.S.-Muslim
World Relations” panel organized by Americans for Informed Democracy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 1.
2005 “Rethinking the Veil: Women’s Identities and Globalization”, 21st Century Islam in
Europe and Eurasia Workshop, Outreach Program, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, Duke University, February 5.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Organizer of Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies “Re-orienting the Veil”
Conference in February 22-23, 2013. Co-Organizer of 19th Critical Geography Conference hosted by the Department of Geography,
UNC-Chapel Hill. November 2-4, 2012.
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Organizer of the year-long biweekly research presentation series and three international workshops at UNC-Chapel Hill as part of the Sawyer Seminar (2009-2010): ‘Gender, Minorities, Constitutions’ (December 4-5), ‘Nationalists and Salafis’ (February 5-6), and ‘Sacred Spaces, Sacred Sounds’ (April 23-24). Collaborating PI: Sarah Shields.
Co-Organizer of Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and the Journal for Middle East Women’s
Studies “Marketing Muslim Women” Workshop (April 2007) and International Conference (April 2008). Led a two-session workshop on women’s global Islamic fashion industry during the conference.