In Newlines, on liberalism in Turkey and Christine Philliou’s book on Refik Halid Karay. newlinesmag.com/review/for-m...

For Most of Turkey’s History, Liberalism Has Been More Illusory Than Real

The key to understanding liberalism’s consistent presence at the core of otherwise illiberal governance in Turkey lies in the history of another word, muhalefet. It’s the word at the center of Christi...

Aside from the academic stuff, I have published a lot of public facing work on Turkey. Here’s a few pieces I think hold up well and might have some kind of staying power. In Public Books on the history of progressivism in Turkey. www.publicbooks.org/turkeys-prog...

Turkey’s Progressive Past

In her posthumously published memoir, written in the late 1960s, the journalist Sabiha Sertel reflected on her life in exile from Turkey, her home country. She had lived through a period of ...

This piece in JOTSA also came out of the diss (but won’t really be part of the book if/when that gets finished). It looks into how a kind of exile in America inflected the memoirs of the daughter of Turkish leftists with nostalgia. hcommons.org/deposits/obj...

If you don’t have proquest, I published an open-access article here that gets into the main argument, focusing on political trials in the post WWII period. www.journal-prisms.de/index.php/ho...

Maybe one day I will have a job that will give me space to turn this dissertation on dissent in interwar Turkey into a book. www.proquest.com/openview/217...

Way back when, I turned a term paper on the desegregation of public transit in Istanbul into a piece for JUH. Still my most cited piece of scholarship even though it’s not my main thing. hcommons.org/deposits/obj...

Have not been posting much here, or really at the other place either. Seems to be some momentum here at the moment and more Turkey people/academics. If you don’t know me, I’m gonna post some things I’ve written over the years that I like, some I maybe wish more people read. Just so you get the idea

I am not complaining so much as saying in an ideal world adjuncts aren’t depending on the income to live and are a small minority of the teaching faculty. What used to be an exceptional case has become the norm and it’s hurting everyone.

I’m adjuncting in modestly reasonable circumstances (I have a second part time job, my colleagues are great, I am unionized) and it is still a lot of work to do this well for peanuts!

Joe Sacco’s brilliant new series on Gaza www.tcj.com/topic/the-wa...