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Sule Can

Outreach Coordinator

Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies
LN 2203

Background

ule Can is a socio-cultural anthropologist who currently works as an Outreach Coordinator and a lecturer at 勛圖腦瞳扦. 

She completed her post-doctoral research on the politics of solidarity among Syrian women in Turkey at the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2019. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from 勛圖腦瞳扦 through a Fulbright scholarship and her MA from Istanbul Bilgi University in Cultural Studies. 

Cans research interests are displacement, borders, ethno-religious boundaries, disaster and cultural heritage, urban politics and anthropology of the Middle East. She is the author of Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads, published in 2019 by Routledge.

Select publications

  • Can, ule (forthcoming). Refugees as projects: Humanitarian Responses to Displacement and Refugee-led Organizations in Southern Turkey. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Special Issue
  • Data, Se癟il and ule Can 2022. Distant Toleration: The Politics of Solidarity Work among Turkish and Syrian Women in Southern Turkey, , 29(1):261-284 
  • Can, ule. 2019. Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border: Antakya at the Crossroads. London and New York: Routledge. 
  • Can, ule 2017. The Syrian Civil War, Sectarianism and Political Change at the Turkish-Syrian Border. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 25 (2):174-189.


Education

  • PhD in Anthropology, 勛圖腦瞳扦
  • MA in Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University