CURRICULUM VITAE
BOOKS:
Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Scenes & Types, Proceedings from the Global Studies Human Zoos Symposium and Scenes & Types Sheehan Gallery Exhibition (Global Studies Initiative, Whitman College, 2016).
“Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Community and Law in Ottoman Aleppo (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008).
ARTICLES:
“’Hideously Tattooed’: Decolonizing the Humanitarian Gaze in Three Photographs from the Armenian Genocide,” in Afterlives: Remnants, Ruins and Representations of The Armenian Genocide eds. Erdağ Göknar, Hülya Adak, and Melanie Tanielian (forthcoming).
“Between the Lines: Haig Toroyan’s Testimony and the Armenian Genocide” in Zabel Yesayan, Agony of a People (forthcoming).
“Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” Journal of Genocide Research, July 17 2024, 1-22.
“Coffee, Kayf, and Conversation: The Co-spatiality of Coffeehouses in Early Modern Ottoman Aleppo” Religion and Urbanity Online, De Gruyter, Forthcoming.
“The Waqf: Where Religion Meets Urbanity,” Religion and Urbanity Online Reciprocal Formations, De Gruyter, 2024.
“A World Without Civilians,” Journal of Genocide Research, 19:3 (January 2024).
“Phantom Limbs, Embodied Horror, and the Afterlives of the Armenian Genocide,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Special Issues: “Death and Afterlives in the Middle East” special editor Aslı Zengin) 42:1 (2022) 182-195.
“Zabel Essayan, “Liberation of non-Muslim Women and Children,” translation, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 28 (2022) 1-14.
“Karen Jeppe: Mother of Armenians (1876-1935),” co-authored with Matthias Bjørnlund, Houshamadyan, August 10, 2020.
“Armenians in the Production of Urban Space in Early Modern Judayda, Aleppo” in Aleppo and Its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period / Alep et sa province à l’époque ottomane, eds. Stefan Winter and Mafalde Ade (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2019).
“Bone Memory: The Necrogeography of the Armenian Genocide in Der Zor, Syria,” Human Remains and Violence Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2018, 56-75.
“Armenian Women, Legal Bargaining, and Gendered Politics of Conversion in Eighteenth Century Aleppo” Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies (March 2016)
“Sexing the Hammam: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in the Ottoman Bathhouse” in Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures ed. Gul Ozyegin (Ashgate, 2015)
“#SaveKessab, #Save Aleppo, and Kim Kardashian: Syria’s Rashomon Effect” Jadaliyya (April 24, 2014)
“#Keseb’i Kurtarın, #Halep’i Kurtarın Kampanyası ve Kim Kardashian: Suriye’de Raşomon Etkisi,” Birikim 3 Haziran 2014.
“Naked Anxiety: Bathhouses, Nudity, and Muslim/non-Muslim Relations in Eighteenth-Century Aleppo” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 45:4 (November 2013) 651-676.
“‘Because He is So Tender and Pretty’: Sexual Deviance and Heresy in Eighteenth- Century Aleppo” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 18:2 (March 2012) 175-199.
“Rewriting the History of Sexuality in the Islamic World” Hawwa 4: 1-2 (2006).
“Zinah,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 6: 49-50.
“Gender Violence and Intent in Ottoman Law: A View of the Imperial Kanunnames and Fetvas of the Sixteenth Century,” in Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, ed. Amira Sonbol (Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 2005 reprinted American University of Cairo Press, 2006).
“Women, Gender and Domestic Violence” and “Rape in Islam,” Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2004).
“Sinful Professions: Illegal Occupations of Women in Ottoman Aleppo, Syria,” Hawwa 1:1, 2003.
FELLOWSHIPS & PRIZES:
2023-2024 Fellowship “Religion and Urbanity” Research Group at University of Erfurt, Germany, Grant
Source: German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
2016-2017 Society for the Humanities Fellowship (“Skin”)
Cornell University
2016 G. Thomas Edwards Award for Excellence in
Scholarship and Teaching
2016 American Research Institute in Turkey Intensive
Language Fellowship— U.S. Department of Education
2014 Syrian Studies Association Best Article Prize
2013 Dumanian Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies—Department of Near Eastern Cultures
and Languages, University of Chicago
2012 Syrian Studies Association Best Article Prize
2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship-Council for International
Exchange of Scholars (North Africa/Asia), Syria
2003 Syrian Studies Association Best Dissertation Prize
1999-2000 Fulbright II-E Scholarship–Syria