2023 “Making Fetuses Into Babies: The Anthropology of Social Personhood” in “Reproductive Justice as a Human Right: Being ‘Pro-Life’ Post-Roe,” Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues.
2022 “”Two in One”: Transnational Inheritance and the Remaking of the Sinasite Houses.” Museum Anthropology.
ABSTRACT This article examines debates between Greeks and Turks about how to preserve the architectural heritage left behind by the Greek Orthodox population exiled from Sinasos in the 1923 Greek-Turkish Compulsory Population Exchange. The restoration of Sinasos as a kind of residential and commercial open-air museum, through the transformation of ancestral homes into hotels, engendered new cooperative and competitive relationships between Greeks and Turks with legitimate claims to the site. Greeks and Turks are typically portrayed as antagonistic, but understanding the historic properties as a form of inheritance much like the estates fundamental to “house societies” described by Claude Lévi-Strauss reveals a transnational community with shared concerns around memory, heritage preservation, transnational identity formation, and touristic enterprise. [heritage, inheritance, house, memory, Turkey]
2021 “Understanding Homeland through Hospitality Practices: Interactions Between Greek and Turkish Exchangees in Ancestral Villages.” Études arméniennes contemporaines
ABSTRACT This essay explores notions of homeland among descendants of the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange. Visits to ancestral villages transform understandings of the homeland that previously existed only in memory or family stories. These visits also require interactions between Greeks and Turks, typically conceived of as national enemies. Inspired by the Ottoman model presented by their forebears, exchangees reply upon shared hospitality practices to structure cooperative and durable interactions that become central to their conception of their homeland.