The City University of New York
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Areas of Specialization
Meaning of material environment
Personal objects
Dislocated populations at the end of the Ottoman Empire
Cultural identity
Material memories
Zeynep Turan
Ph.D. Candidate
The City University of New York, The Graduate Center
Department of Environmental Psychology
Degrees
M.A. 2003 Hunter College, CUNY (Psychology)
M.A. 2000 Architectural Association, London (Architectural History and Theory)
Principal Presentations and Publications
“Objects of Legacy” Presentation at the Contested Public Memories, Syracuse University, Syracuse, October 2005.
“Personal Objects from the Homeland” Presentation at the Fabrications: Material Reflections on the Social World, Graduate Conference, Columbia University Center for Archeology, New York, March 2004.
“Objects from the Homeland: Reconstructing Cultural and Personal Identities” in Journal of Humanities, vol 1, Melbourne, 2004 (in press).
“Personal Objects from the Homeland” Presentation at the International Conference on New Direction in Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes-Greece, July 2003.