MGSA Survey of Graduate Students

Zeynep Turan

Ph.D. Candidate

The City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Department of Environmental Psychology

 

I. Degrees

M.A. 2003 Hunter College, CUNY (Psychology)

M.A. 2000 Architectural Association, London (Architectural History and Theory)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Meaning of material environment

Personal objects

Dislocated populations at the end of the Ottoman Empire

Cultural identity

Material memories

 

III. Principal Presentations and Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Turan, Zeynep, “Objects of Legacy” Presentation at the Contested Public Memories, Syracuse University, Syracuse, October 2005.

 

Turan, Zeynep, “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.

 

Turan, Zeynep, “Objects from the Homeland: Reconstructing Cultural and Personal Identities” in Journal of Humanities, vol 1, Melbourne, 2004 (in press).

 

Turan, Zeynep, “Personal Objects from the Homeland” Presentation at the International Conference on New Direction in Humanities, University of the Aegean, Rhodes-Greece, July 2003.

 

IV. Office Address

Department of Environmental Psychology

The City University of New York, The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

 

Office Telephone

212-817-1937

Electronic Address

[email protected]

V. Home Address

(no information submitted)

Home Telephone

(no information submitted)

 

VI. Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic

(no information submitted)

 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

 

 

Last revised November 17, 2005

 

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