NES Faculty

Senem Aslan
Postdoctoral Research Associate

email: saslan@princeton.edu

Aslan, a second-year postdoctoral research associate, completed her dissertation at the University of Washington in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in 2008. During her first year at Princeton she began revising her dissertation on “Governing Areas of Dissidence: Nation-Building and Ethnic Movements in Turkey and Morocco,” and she wrote two articles discussing aspects of Turkey’s policies towards the Kurds, both of which have been accepted for publication. In the spring semester, Aslan organized a panel at Princeton on “Minorities in the Middle East,” as well as a high-school teachers’ training session on the same topic, and she taught a course on the relations between the state and society in the Middle East. This year she plans on finishing the rewriting of her dissertation for publication.