Dr. Anna Grabolle Çeliker

agrabolle [at] yahoo.co.uk

Groups

Gender

Human Rights

Identity

Kurds

Migration

Minorities

Transnationalism

Career

2007-2009 Translator and website editor for online human rights-based journalism site bianet

1997-2004 Language instructor at English preparatory programmes at Yeditepe and Işık Universities; also: German language instructor for elective courses at both universities

Academic Career

2009-2011 Visiting lecturer at Marmara University

2007-2011 Part-time lecturer at Social Anthropology department, Yeditepe University

2010 Tübingen University; PhD in Social Anthropology, “Migration and Change among Vanlı from Eastern Turkey”

1993-1997 Edinburgh University; MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Linguistics

Publications

Forthcoming: Anna Grabolle-Çeliker 2012 Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender and Ethnic Identity. London: I. B. Tauris.

—— 2009 Construction of the Kurdish Self in Turkey through Humorous Popular Culture, Journal of Intercultural Studies 30 (1): 89-105.

—— 2008 The Public and the Private: Discourses and Identifications among Vanlı Women in İstanbul, in Frank Eckardt and Kathrin Wildner (eds), Public Istanbul – Spaces and Spheres of the Urban. Bielefeld: transcript.