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Ayfer Karakaya-Stump

Associate Professor, History

Office: Blair 310
Email: [[akstump]]
Regional Areas of Research: Middle East, especially Anatolia and the Balkans under Ottoman Rule
Thematic Areas of Research: Religion, Subalternity, Cultural and Social, Borders and Borderlands, Women, Gender and Sexuality, Historiography and Historical Memory

Bio

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Before taking up her position at William and 玛丽, she was a post-doctoral fellow for two years at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. In the 2013-4 academic year she held a Mellon Fellowship at the American Research Institute in Turkey and a Senior Fellowship at the Koç University Center for Anatolian Civilizations. 

In addition to her academic work, Karakaya-Stump has also published commentaries in periodicals and newspapers, and given interviews, on current Turkish politics.